Year:1980

Bands Formed

 * New Order
 * R.E.M.

Singles Released

 * Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
 * Atmosphere Joy Division
 * Ashes to Ashes David Bowie
 * Train in Vain (Stand by Me) The Clash
 * 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
 * Redemption Song Bob Marley
 * Ace of Spades Motörhead
 * The Same Old Scene Roxy Music
 * Crosseyed and Painless Talking Heads
 * Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel
 * Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins
 * Keep On Loving You REO Speedwagon
 * Funkytown
 * Never Knew Love Like This Before Stephanie Mills
 * Lost in Love
 * Look What You've Done To Me
 * Every Woman In The World

Albums Released

 * February 29: Mr. Partridge - Take Away/The Lure Of Salvage
 * April: The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
 * 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