Year:1980

Bands Formed

 * New Order
 * R.E.M.

Singles Released

 * Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
 * Atmosphere Joy Division
 * Train in Vain The Clash
 * Ashes to Ashes David Bowie
 * A Forest The Cure
 * Holiday in Cambodia Dead Kennedys
 * Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
 * Going Underground/The Dreams of Children The Jam
 * Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 * Clampdown The Clash
 * Fade to Grey Visage
 * The Great Curve Talking Heads
 * Army Dreamers Kate Bush
 * Atomic Blondie
 * Hate the Police Dicks
 * Ace of Spades Motörhead
 * Crosseyed And Painless Talking Heads
 * The Same Old Scene Roxy Music
 * Redemption Song Bob Marley
 * Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel
 * Born Under Punches Talking Heads
 * Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins
 * Academy Fight Song Mission of Burma
 * Israel Siouxsie & The Banshees
 * Cities Talking Heads
 * Babooshka Kate Bush
 * Totally Wired The Fall
 * Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime The Korgis
 * Kill the Poor Dead Kennedys
 * Breathing Kate Bush
 * I Got You Split Enz
 * I Will Follow U2
 * Treason (It's Just a Story) The Teardrop Explodes
 * Requiem Killing Joke
 * Messages Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 * Happy House Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * I Travel Simple Minds
 * Could You Be Loved Bob Marley
 * Rudie Can't Fail The Clash
 * I Wanna Be Sedated Ramones
 * Embarrassment Madness
 * Rescue Echo & the Bunnymen
 * Christine Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Garbageman The Cramps
 * Geno Dexys Midnight Runners
 * Rat Race/Rude Boys Outta Jail The Specials
 * Dancing with Myself Gen X
 * Runaway Boys Stray Cats
 * Turning Japanese The Vapors
 * To Cut a Long Story Short Spandau Ballet
 * Antmusic Adam and the Ants
 * So Long Fischer-Z
 * The Winner Takes It All ABBA
 * C'30, C'60, C'90 Go Bow Wow Wow
 * At the Edge Stiff Little Fingers
 * Summer Fun The Barracudas
 * Bear Cage The Stranglers
 * Use It Up and Wear It Out Odyssey
 * Suicide Is Painless The MASH
 * Do You Feel My Love? Eddy Grant
 * Funkytown
 * Never Knew Love Like This Before Stephanie Mills
 * Lost in Love
 * Look What You've Done To Me
 * Can You Feel It The Jacksons
 * Is Vic There? Department S
 * Kings of the Wild Frontier Adam and the Ants
 * 9 to 5 Dolly Parton
 * Keep On Loving You REO Speedwagon
 * Twilight Café Susan Fassbender
 * Days Are OK The Motels
 * Whose Problem? The Motels
 * Let's Go Round Again Average White Band
 * Every Woman In The World Air Supply
 * Sexy Eyes Dr. Hook
 * 9 to 5 Sheena Easton
 * Bring It All Home Gerry Rafferty
 * I Could Be So Good for You Dennis Waterman
 * Let Me Talk Earth, Wind & Fire

Albums Released

 * February 29: Mr. Partridge - Take Away/The Lure Of Salvage
 * April 22: The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
 * July 17: Joy Division - Closer
 * September 2: Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
 * September 12: XTC - Black Sea
 * October 8: Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Other Events

 * Bananarama stops playing instruments and concentrate on vocals.

Matches

 * Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Festivals
==Classical music [ edit] ==
 * Pinkpop 1980


 * January 3 : First performance of Epitaph for oboe and piano by Witold Lutosławski
 * January 29 : First performance of Novelette for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski
 * June 18 : First performance of Concerto for chamber orchestra by Johan Kvandal
 * June 25 : first performance of A madrigal opera by Philip Glass
 * August 24 : First performance of Double Concerto for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra by Witold Lutosławski
 * November 16 : First performance of Nocturne for piano og altfløyte of Johan Kvandal