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Albums: Cross Road, Crush, Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi is a hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr.), the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s. Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist...
- Aerosmith
Albums: Get a Grip, Permanent Vacation, Get Your Wings
Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band. Although they are known as a Boston, Massachusetts band, none of the members are actually from that city. Three of the members, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Tom Hamilton had originally met in Sunapee, New Hampshire in the late 60's, but had not yet...
- Boston
Albums: Boston, Greatest Hits, Don't Look Back
Boston is a best-selling American rock band that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, a former product designer at Polaroid Corporation and an MIT engineering student, the band's best known works include the...
- Ozzy Osbourne
Albums: Blizzard of Ozz, No More Tears, Black Rain
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. Throughout an extraordinary career, which has so far spanned four decades, Osbourne has made major contributions to the worlds of music and popular culture. Osbourne rose to prominence as co-founder and lead singer...
- Black Sabbath
Albums: Paranoid, Master of Reality, Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums). In the early ’70s they were the first to pair heavily distorted, sonically dissonant blues-rock at slow speeds...
- Van Halen
Albums: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Van Halen, Van Halen II
Van Halen is an international hard rock band formed in the early-1970s, originally called Mammoth (before being called Van Halen, one of the band's ideas for a name was Rat Salade). The band's first studio album,
- Poison
Albums: Look What the Cat Dragged In, Open Up and Say... Ahh!, Flesh & Blood
Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. To date, the band has sold 14.5 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and one #1.
- Motley Crue
Albums: Greatest Hits, Shout at the Devil, Dr. Feelgood
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million album copies...
- Whitesnake
Albums: Whitesnake, Greatest Hits, Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake are an English hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple) in North Yorkshire. In their early years, Whitesnake played in a hard blues-rock and heavy metal style. By the mid-80s, the band had moved towards a more commercial hair metal sound.
- Twisted Sister
Albums: Stay Hungry, Still Hungry, You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll
Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from New York City popularized in comedic music videos on the television channel MTV in the 1980s. Although formed by guitar player Jay Jay French in 1973, all of their songs were written by the lead singer Dee Snider.
- Cheap Trick
Albums: At Budokan, Greatest Hits, Heaven Tonight
Cheap Trick is a U.S. rock and roll/power pop band from Rockford, Illinois, that gained popularity in the late 1970s. The band members are Rick Nielsen (guitarist and main songwriter), Bun E. Carlos (born Brad Carlson) (drums), Robin Zander (vocals and guitars), and Tom Petersson (bass guitar).
- Skid Row
Albums: Slave to the Grind, Skid Row, Thickskin
There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Skid Row is a hard rock/heavy metal band that was formed by bassist Rachel Bolan and guitarist Dave Sabo, who got the band a quick record deal through being close friends with Jon Bon Jovi, lead singer of popular hard rock band Bon Jovi.
- Warrant
Albums: Cherry Pie, The Best of Warrant, Dog Eat Dog
Warrant is an American glam metal band from Hollywood, California that experienced success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with two multi-platinum albums. The band first came into the national spotlight with their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, and one of its singles, "Heaven,"...
- Quiet Riot
Albums: Metal Health, Greatest Hits, Condition Critical
Quiet Riot is a defunct american heavy metal band, whose 1983 chart topping success helped pave the way for the glam metal scene's next decade of commercial prominence. They are best known for their ”Metal Health” album which displaced Michael Jackson’s ”Thriller” album from the #1 chart...
- The Cult
Albums: Love, Born Into This, Electric
The Cult are an English rock band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-'80s singles like She Sells Sanctuary before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with Love Removal Machine. The band fuses a "heavy metal revivalist" sound with the...
- Great White
Albums: ...Twice Shy, Once Bitten, Greatest Hits
Great White is an American blues-based rock band known primarily for their hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", a cover version of a song written by Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter. Their songs were derivative of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Mott the Hoople. While one infamous nightclub show eclipses their...
- Bad English
Albums: Bad English, Backlash, Monster Ballads
Bad English was an American rock band formed by 3 ex-members of the band The Babys, Jonathan Cain, John Waite and Ricky Phillips (now in Styx) along with Journey guitarist Neal Schon. The band's first, self titled album released in 1988, gave the band two hit singles in the United States, "When I...
- Slaughter
Albums: Stick It to Ya, Stick It To Ya, The Wild Life
There is more than one artist with this name: an American glam metal band., and a Canadian death/thrash metal band 1) Slaughter first formed in Las Vegas, NV. at the height of glam metal's dominance over MTV and rock radio. Achieving popularity at the tail end of the movement, Slaughter's day in...
- Dokken
Albums: Hell to Pay, Dysfunctional, Tooth and Nail
Dokken was a major attraction throughout the 1980s. With vocalist Don Dokken's captivating stage presence and guitarist George Lynch's high-energy style, the band combined rockers such as "Kiss of Death" and power ballads such as "Alone Again" in order to create a number of best-selling albums.
- New York Dolls
Albums: New York Dolls, Too Much Too Soon, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
The New York Dolls are an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1971. In 2004 the band reformed with three of their original members, two of whom, David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, continue on today and have released two records of new material. The original bassist, Arthur Kane died...
- W-A-S-P
Albums: Animal | W.A.S.P. | The Last Command
W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982. They emerged from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot and others. The band's popularity peaked in the 1980s, yet they continue to record and tour, making them one of the most enduring of the West Coast...
- London
Albums: Playa Del Rock, One 2 Many, The Punk Rock Collection
London were a four piece punk band formed in London in 1976 and were best known for their wild stage act. The line-up was Riff Regan (Vocals), Steve Voice (Bass), Jon Moss (Drums) and Dave Wight (Guitar). They were managed by Simon Napier-Bell and recorded two singles, a 4 track EP and an album for...
