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Daryl Hall & John Oates + Tears for Fears Tour

By Live '80s Kansas City on March 2, 2017 News

Daryl Hall & John Oates Join Tears for Fears for Summer 2017 Tour Two dynamic duos quintessential to ’80s music join forces this summer for an unparalleled concert tour. Daryl Hall & John Oates and Tears for Fears announced a 29-date consociation running May through June in which Hall told Rolling Stone could be “the start of a long relationship.” Fans will now have the chance to see them showcase their long list of hits on the same card. Currently, no dates are set for Kansas City, though several opportunities to catch them are available throughout the Midwest, including Tulsa, St.…

Exposé Debut Album “Exposure” Turns 30

By Live '80s Kansas City on March 2, 2017 News

All female trio and freestyle dance music sensation Exposé released its debut album “Exposure” (1987) on this day 30 years ago. After successful singles in 1984 with “Point of No Return” and “Exposed to Love”—No. 1 and No. 12 on the dance chart respectively—Arista Records gave the group an opportunity for a full-length record. Half way through the recording, the original line-up of Alejandra “Alé” Lorenzo, Sandra “Sandeé” Casañas and Laurie Miller was replaced with Jeanette Jurado, Gioia Bruno and Ann Curless. Today, “Exposed to Love” is the only single featuring the initial three as “Point of No Return” was…

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Willie Nelson Coming to Starlight Theatre

By Live '80s Kansas City on February 21, 2017 News

80s Concerts in Kansas City | Willie Nelson & Family at Starlight Theatre Country music icon Willie Nelson announced a new summer concert date set for Starlight Theatre on June 17. Scheduled to entertain alongside him are special guests Dwight Yoakam and Robert Earl Keen. The Texas singer-songwriter has a vast array of tunes spanning his six-decade career from which to choose, including a host of hits from the 1980s. A few from the decade you may expect to hear are the country chart-toppers “On The Road Again,” “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” and “Always On My Mind.” As products of the ’80s, both…

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“Quantum Leap” Complete Series Now on Blu-ray

By Live '80s Kansas City on February 7, 2017 Blu-ray, News

Mill Creek Releases “Quantum Leap” on Blu-ray, First Time in Hi-Def All five seasons of the six-time Emmy® Award-winning television series “Quantum Leap” (1989–1993) are available for the first time on Blu-ray in a 18-disc set courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment. Starring Golden Globe winners Scott Bakula (Dr. Sam Beckett) and Dean Stockwell (Admiral Al Calavicci), the sci-fi adventure series follows Sam, a physicist caught in an experiment gone awry, who leaps through spacetime into the bodies of people of the past in order to fix historical mistakes or “put right what once went wrong.” His only solace is that…

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The Tubes 1981 Musikladen Concert Now on DVD

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 24, 2016 News

Since the dawning of The Tubes in 1975, the San Francisco-based rockers forged a reputation for their electrifying and uninhibited live performances. After several years of playing the bar scene, the band hit it big with its sixth studio album, “The Completion Backward Principle” (1981). This concept record was presented as a motivational business document and included two hit singles. “Don’t Want to Wait Anymore” went all the way to No. 35 on the pop chart and No. 22 on the mainstream rock tracks chart, while “Talk to Ya Later” reached No. 6 on the latter. Upon the album release, The Tubes…

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Bret Michaels Hits Star Pavilion

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 20, 2016 News

Legendary rocker Bret Michaels performs live inside Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City on Saturday, October 29 as a part of his “The Party Starts Now” tour. Michaels gained his initial success as the frontman of the glam metal band Poison. The group went multi-platinum with its first three albums. “Look What the Cat Dragged In” (1986) reached No. 3 on the albums chart while “Open Up and Say… Ahh!” (1988) and “Flesh & Blood” (1990) both reached No. 2. The band’s first album spawned its first Top 10 hit, “Talk Dirty to Me.” The follow-up album created another Top…

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Foreigner Acoustic Tour Comes to Yardley Hall

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 17, 2016 News

Enduring classic rock band Foreigner returns to the Kansas City area on November 18 with a live show at Yardley Hall located inside the Carlsen Center on the campus of Johnson County Community College. This time, however, it is a totally raw performance in promotion of “In Concert. Unplugged,” the band’s first-ever live acoustic album released this past February. A tour with stops at select venues kicked off following the record launch as a prelude to the national one commencing on October 21. “People really like it, that’s why we extended these shows,” multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist Tom Gimbel told…

Wang Chung “Mosaic” Album Turns 30

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 14, 2016 News

Paradigmatic British new wave group Wang Chung consisting of Jack Hues and Nick Feldman celebrates 30 years today since the release of its fourth studio album, “Mosaic” (1986). The masterful record reached No. 41 on the Billboard 200 and features three hit singles—”Everybody Have Fun Tonight” [No. 2], “Let’s Go” [No. 9] and “Hypnotize Me” [No. 36]. The former gave the duo its greatest success on the pop chart boasting that often-quoted lyric “everybody Wang Chung tonight,” which so righteously defines the era, while the latter is its latest in the top 40.

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“Knight Rider” Complete Series Now on Blu-ray

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 11, 2016 Blu-ray, News

Sci-fi action adventure television series “Knight Rider” (1982–1986) is available for the first time on Blu-ray in a 16-disc set courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment. All four seasons with 90 action-packed episodes produced for NBC are included. Starring David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, the high-tech public justice field agent teams with K.I.T.T., an artificially intelligent car, in circumstances when “direct action might provide the only feasible solution.” Hop inside the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and ride along with the dynamic duo in their thrilling high-speed chases as they pursue the volatile criminals now remastered in High Definition. Buy “Knight Rider”…

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“Miami Vice” Complete Series Now on Blu-ray

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 11, 2016 Blu-ray, News

Crime drama television series “Miami Vice” (1984–1989) is available for the first time on Blu-ray in a 20-disc set courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment. All five seasons plus the lost episodes of this Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning show created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC are included. Starring Don Johnson (James “Sonny” Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs), “Miam Vice” revolutionized TV with its use of new wave culture and stunning visual effects as the city’s coolest detectives clashed with the rubbish of the corrupt underworld. Relive every bit of the action backed…

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