That beautiful July 45 years ago

As with wine, even for music there are beautiful vintages, good vintages and other less good. Music is less linked to the year than the wine, so we can even speak of splendid ‘mesate’. And on July 1980, on July of forty -five years ago, it was undoubtedly a splendid month. To support the thesis, we report the titles of five albums that were released in July 1980.

First of all the masterpiece of AC/DC “Back in Black” (Read the review here) published on July 25th. The Australian band on February 19 of that year found itself orphan of the frontman Bon scott who died in London in circumstances never completely clarified collapsed on the seat of a car after a night -based night. Within a couple of months the group enlisted the singer of Geordiessuch Brian Johnsonwhich immediately entered the recording room to give birth to one of the best -selling albums of all time.

On 11 July 1980 he saw the light “Searching for the Young Soul Rebels”the debut album of Dexys Midnight Runnersoriginal band of Birmingham, England, led by the talented but moody Kevin Rowland. The disc, dragged by “Geno”which reached the first position of the British sales ranking, he also entered the top ten of the albums. Two years later “As on Eileen” he regained the summit of the chart and the album “Too-Rye-Ay” He got into her second position, but the difficult relationships between the members of the group and Rowland in 1985 led to the dissolution of the group.

The following week the release of Dexys Midnight Runnerson July 18, the second and last album of the Joy Division, “Closer”. Curiously also this album, as for “Back in Black”has death. Two months before its publication the leader of the group, Ian Curtisin fact he had committed suicide. The album, finished before the singer’s disappearance, became one of the symbols of the British New-Wave scene. After the death of Curtis the other members of the group – Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook And Stephen Morris – melted the Joy Division and gave birth to New Order.

“Vienna” It is the fourth album of Ultravox And it comes out on 11 July 1980. It is the first album in which the band’s rudder holds up is Midge Urewhich took over from the previous leader, John Foxxoutside the group in 1979 to engage in a solo career. The success of the album gave notoriety to the Ultravox which I will reverberate in the albums and in the following years.

In that July 1980 it was also published “Voices”the ninth album of the American duo Hall & Oatesformed by Daryl Hall And John Oates. The album restores enamel to the two musicians who after having known a period of good success in the mid -seventies were marking the step. The most successful song of “Voices” was “Kiss on my list” which remained for three weeks in the first place in the sales ranking in America. It was also present on the disc too “Everytime You Go Away”song that was not published as a single, but which conquered the first position of the chart a few years later, in 1985, played by Paul Young.