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1. This drummer lost his arm in a 1984 car accident.
2. L.A. kids might know many songs from this British duo, but their only U.S. hit was a cover of Gloria Jones' 1964 Northern Soul classic.
3. This band featured Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus, but not David J.
4. In 1989, she contributed to Queen Latifah's single "Ladies First." A year later, she released "It's a Shame (My Sister."
5. Discovered by David Gilmour in the 1970s, she broke in the U.S. with her 1985 album
Hounds of Love.
6. This controversial Irish performer sang on The The's "Kingdom of Rain" in 1989.
7. She released
Season of Glass a year or so after her husband's 1980 murder.
8. These two members of ABBA co-wrote "One Night in Bangkok" with Tim Rice.
9. Those of us who grew up in L.A. might remember this band as a favorite of The Nightstalker, a serial killer who struck the city in 1985.
10. The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshee's Steve Severin collaborated on this project in 1983.