Sunshine Radio's Smoothest Eighties Pop (1980-1984)
Pexels To recreate the early 1980s radio feeling, I chose to play yacht rock tracks and pop hits, mixed with original radio jingles and air checks from the era. Around the mid-eighties ordinary looking guys like Christoper Cross were completely wiped away by glamours pop stars who seemed to be made for MTV, such as Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and Adam Ant. “The video killed the radio star thing was absolutely true in my case”, Christopher Cross says in the recent HBO documentary about yacht rock. In 1976 American singer and entertainer Donna Lynton moved to the Netherlands, because of her Dutch boyfriend and later husband Charlie. A year later she began to release a few singles, of which Theme From Charlie's Angels became an instant hit. Her version of Marty Balin’s hit Hearts sounds quite reminiscent of Toto’s Africa . Nowadays known as a yacht rock phenomenon, the band Pages was disbanded after their third self-titled album in 1981, due to disappointing record sales. Main membe...