{"id":118563,"date":"2023-03-07T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118563"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:20:36","slug":"kbs-look-back-at-the-80s-music-scene-china-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118563","title":{"rendered":"KB&#8217;s Look Back at the 80&#8217;s Music Scene: China Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118563\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118564 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/China-Crisis-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/China-Crisis-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/China-Crisis.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture this:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kirby, Merseyside, England 1979<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gary Daly and Eric Lundon are playing in various post-punk groups in the Merseyside area. In 1980 they get a synthesizer and drum machine and start making their own music. OMD and Depeche Mode are big influences.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982 they signed a recording contract and their debut studio album &#8220;Difficult Shapes &amp; Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It&#8217;s Fun to Entertain&#8221; was released in November 1982. The song &#8220;Christian&#8221; went to No. 12 in the UK charts and brought them international success.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Their second studio album &#8220;Working with Fire and Steel \u2013 Possible Pop Songs Volume Two&#8221; was released in November 1983 and gave them their only UK Top 10 hit: &#8220;Wishful Thinking&#8221; which was a big success in Europe, so was the album.<\/p>\n<p>Steely Dan&#8217;s Walter Becker produced their third album &#8221; Flaunt the Imperfection in 1985. The single &#8220;Black Man Ray&#8221; was successful across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The following albums were good but nothing more than that. From 1992 the band released compilation CDs and Live DVDs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Fast Forward to 2023:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Lundon teaches song writing at The Institute for the Performing Arts in Liverpool and Gary Daly released his solo album &#8220;Gone From Here&#8221; in 2019 and in 2020 his second &#8220;Luna Landings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 they are touring across Europe and America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen Picture this: Kirby, Merseyside, England 1979 Gary Daly and Eric Lundon are playing in various post-punk groups in the Merseyside area. In 1980 they get a synthesizer and drum machine and start making their own music. OMD and Depeche Mode are big influences. In 1982 they signed a recording contract and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[30570],"class_list":["post-118563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-kbs-look-back-at-the-80s-music-scene-china-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118563"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}