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The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80's Music

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If you love the 80s, this book will leave you breathless. There are over 1000 entries in here from big name bands down to ones you've never heard of - but all of them from the tubular decade. This book is now in the 3rd edition, so you can trust that any misinformation or typos have been corrected.

Each entry has dates, facts about the artist(s), ratings on their albums, and a discography.

Other books on the subject of 80s music are going out of print fast, so be sure to pick it up while you can. Great value for the money. Great bathroom reading. Learn something new every day!

The book is a detailed guide of most significant artist of pop and rock music of the 80's. For each entry, it gives you a brief history of the artist or group, their discography with comments on the different albums(including albums that fall out of the 80's decade), and further reading to obtain more information. Perhaps, it is slightly too British music-orientated