Year:1980

Bands Formed

 * New Order
 * R.E.M.

Singles Released

 * Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
 * Atmosphere Joy Division
 * Train in Vain (Stand by Me) The Clash
 * Ashes to Ashes David Bowie
 * A Forest The Cure
 * Let Me Talk Earth, Wind & Fire
 * Holiday in Cambodia Dead Kennedys
 * Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
 * Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 * Going Underground/The Dreams of Children The Jam
 * Clampdown The Clash
 * Fade to Grey Visage
 * The Great Curve Talking Heads
 * Army Dreamers Kate Bush
 * Hate the Police Dicks
 * Atomic Blondie
 * Ace of Spades Motörhead
 * The Same Old Scene Roxy Music
 * Crosseyed and Painless Talking Heads
 * Redemption Song Bob Marley
 * Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel
 * Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins
 * Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Talking Heads
 * Israel Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Academy Fight Song Mission of Burma
 * Totally Wired The Fall
 * Cities Talking Heads
 * I Got You Split Enz
 * Babooshka Kate Bush
 * Antmusic Adam and the Ants
 * Breathing Kate Bush
 * Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime The Korgis
 * Kill the Poor Dead Kennedys
 * Requiem Killing Joke
 * Treason (It's Just a Story) The Teardrop Explodes
 * I Will Follow U2
 * Messages Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 * Happy House Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Garbageman The Cramps
 * Could You Be Loved Bob Marley
 * Rescue Echo & the Bunnymen
 * I Travel Simple Minds
 * Embarrassment Madness
 * Too Much Too Young (The Specials) The Specials
 * Back in Black AC/DC
 * Funkin' for Jamaica Tom Browne
 * Keep On Loving You REO Speedwagon
 * I Hear You Now Jon and Vangelis
 * Use It Up and Wear It Out Odyssey
 * Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless) The MASH
 * Let's Go Round Again Average White Band
 * Funkytown
 * Never Knew Love Like This Before Stephanie Mills
 * Lost in Love
 * Look What You've Done To Me
 * Every Woman In The World
 * Buzz Buzz a Diddle It Matchbox (band)
 * Babe Styx

Albums Released

 * February 29: Mr. Partridge - Take Away/The Lure Of Salvage
 * July: The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
 * September 12: XTC - Black Sea

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