List of Second British Invasion artists explained

The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.

A

• ABC^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Adam and the Ants^[5]
• After the Fire^[3]
• The Alarm^[5]

B

• Bananarama^[5]
• Belouis Some^[6]
• Big Country^{[5] [7]}
• Bow Wow Wow^{[3] [4]}
• The Buggles

C

• Elvis Costello^{[5] [8]}
• Culture Club^{[1] [2] [3] [7] [9] [10]}
• The Cure^[11]

D

• Def Leppard^[5]
• Depeche Mode^{[4] [5]}
• Dexys Midnight Runners^[3]
• Dire Straits
• Thomas Dolby^[9]
• Duran Duran^{[1] [2] [3] [5] [7] [9]}

E

• The English Beat^[3]
• Eurythmics^{[1] [3] [5] [10]}

F

• Fastway^[5]
• A Flock of Seagulls^{[1] [5]}
• The Fixx^{[3] [5]}
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood^{[8] [12]}

G

• Eddy Grant^[1]

H

• Haircut One Hundred^[2]
• Heaven 17^[5]
• The Human League^{[1] [4] [5] [7] [9]}

I

• Billy Idol^{[3] [5]}
• Iron Maiden^[5]

J

• Joe Jackson^[8]
• Howard Jones^{[5] [7] [8]}
• Joy Division^[4]
• Judas Priest^[4]

K

• Kajagoogoo^[5]
• Nik Kershaw

L

• Nick Lowe^{[5] [13]}

M

• Madness^{[1] [5]}
• Modern English^[3]
• Alison Moyet

N

• Naked Eyes^[5]
• New Order
• Gary Numan^[5]

O

• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark^{[14] [15]}

P

• John Parr
• Pet Shop Boys^[10]
• The Police^{[5] [8]}
• The Pretenders^{[5] [8]}

S

• Simple Minds
• Soft Cell^{[2] [4]}
• Spandau Ballet^{[5] [7] [4]}
• The Specials^[4]
• Squeeze^[5]
• The Style Council^[7]

T

• Talk Talk^[8]
• Tears for Fears^[10]
• Thompson Twins^{[1] [3] [4] [5] [7] [9]}

U

• Ultravox^{[4] [5]}

V

• Visage^[4]

W

• Wang Chung
• Wham!^{[1] [5] [8] [9] [10]}

Y

• Paul Young^{[1] [7]}

See also

• Second British Invasion
• List of British Invasion artists

References

Further reading

• Book: Denisoff, R. Serge . Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisted . 1997 . 441 . 3rd . . 0-8873-8068-9 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Reynolds, Simon . Simon Reynolds

   . Simon Reynolds . . . 2005 . 340, 342–3 . 0-571-21570-X.

2. Book: Fletcher, Tony . Tony Fletcher

   . Tony Fletcher . 2013 . Perfect Circle: The Story of REM . . By the time Murmur was released, the American chart was aflow with the likes of Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Haircut 100 and ABC: the fabled Second British Invasion. . 978-0-8571-2853-9 .

3. News: Gary . Graff . The Second British Invasion: New wave now an old ripple . . 28 August 1986 . 25 August 2014 .
4. Parke . Puterbaugh . Anglomania: The Second British Invasion . . 10 November 1983 . 8 February 2017 .
5. News: Roger . Kaye . Culture Club, Duran Duran, Police lead second invasion . . 31 October 1984 . 25 August 2014 .
6. Morales Takes Charge; Vicious Rolls With Loleatta . . 30 July 1994 . 106 . 31 . 27 . 0006-2510 .
7. News: Cathy . Booth . The second British invasion: How It Really Happened . . . 8 June 1984 . 25 August 2014 .
8. Web site: David . Chiu . A look back at 1983: The year of the second British Invasion . . 4 July 2013 . 8 February 2017.
9. Book: Simon . Frith . Andrew . Goodwin . Lawrence . Grossberg . Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader . 1993 . 41 . London . . 0-415-09431-3.
10. Book: Joanne . Sujansky . Jan . Ferri-Reed . 2009 . Keeping The Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation- and What to Do About It . . 66 . 978-0-4704-3851-0 . registration.
11. Web site: 'The Cure wasn't a band...it was a family,' Cure co-founder on the perils of stardom .
12. Web site: David . Chiu . Goodbye Is Forever: Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion . . 10 July 2015 . 15 January 2017 .
13. News: Steve . Dougherty . The Rocker Who Aged Gracefully . . 26 August 2011 . 25 August 2014 .
14. News: Richard. Riccio. Sugar Is Sprinkled with Gems. St. Petersburg Times. 23 August 1991. 94 (Audio Files, p. 21). 15 July 2022.
15. Book: Charry, Eric. 2020. A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s. Wesleyan University Press. 159–160. 978-0819578952.