The world of music needed New Wave in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rock had lived its first great life, but disco had become far too prominent. It was unworthy. The young lads and lasses in the UK ...
New wave was still a baby genre in 1979, but these songs previewed just how far the genre would go in the 1980s.
New wave was as fresh as could be in the 1980s, but these three particular tunes still sound contemporary after more than 40 years.