Various, Simple Minds, Feargal Sharkey, Marc Almond, It's Immaterial, China Crisis, Culture Club, UB40, Chrissie Hynde, Madness, Public Image Limited, Roger Daltrey, Pete Wylie, Mike Oldfield, Aled Jones, Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Boston Alternative

College radio, cheap rehearsal rooms and loud guitars: the US underground's most literate, least glamorous engine room.