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
 * Atomic Blondie
 * Redemption Song Bob Marley
 * The Winner Takes It All ABBA
 * Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime The Korgis
 * I Will Follow U2
 * Happy House Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Geno Dexys Midnight Runners
 * Dancing with Myself Gen X
 * Bear Cage The Stranglers
 * 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
 * Every Woman In The World Air Supply

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