List of Second British Invasion artists

The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.

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Eddy Grant^[1]

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Nick Lowe^[5]^[13]

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark^[14]^[15]

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Ultravox^[4]^[5]

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Visage^[4]

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Wang Chung
Wham!^[1]^[5]^[8]^[9]^[10]

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Paul Young^[1]^[7]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Graff, Gary (28 August 1986). "The Second British Invasion: New wave now an old ripple". Spokane Chronicle. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Puterbaugh, Parke (10 November 1983). "Anglomania: The Second British Invasion". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac Kaye, Roger (31 October 1984). "Culture Club, Duran Duran, Police lead second invasion". Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Chiu, David (4 July 2013). "A look back at 1983: The year of the second British Invasion". CBS News. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Frith, Simon; Goodwin, Andrew; Grossberg, Lawrence (1993). Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. London: Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 0-415-09431-3.
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^ "'The Cure wasn't a band...it was a family,' Cure co-founder on the perils of stardom".
^ Chiu, David (10 July 2015). "Goodbye Is Forever: Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion". Medium. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
^ Dougherty, Steve (26 August 2011). "The Rocker Who Aged Gracefully". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
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