Dieter Bohlen before his big 120-million-selling break as Modern Talking:
Sunday - Hale Hay Louise
https://youtu.be/BloWYm1gqU4
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Roland and Curt from Tears for Fears were apparently in this band with the the guys who would go on to form Naked Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kZtR-G2BM
Roland and Curt also in this band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUqRXz9KkA
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Not exactly what the question was asking for, but I always loved the clips Ricky Gervais from 80's synthpop brush with fame:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV5b60mI_k
― enochroot, Thursday, 22 June 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
wow, i never knew about Graduate! they could have been a thing all on their own.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 June 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
Midge Ure, Slik, "Requiem", 1976,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roY9hYL6sBA
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
Dave Stewart, Longdancer, "Too Much Too Soon", 1973,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVqhdh3RWk
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
John Foxx/Ultravox, 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65XA5o1qGck
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp20n8Wdg9w
Before they were Daft Punk, yet after the (quite frankly) dreadful Cindy So Loud 7" which gave them their new name, this one is alright.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 22 June 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
Gary Numan's Bombers was mentioned upthread, there's a few other little-known gems on the compilation The Plan such as "The Monday Troop" and "Crime of Passion".
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
Midge Ure, Thin Lizzy 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAh7EGFev4
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
Not really little known, but I do love the song.
Annie Lennox/Dave Stewart, The Tourists, Blind Among The Flowers, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPafOcZQbTc
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Not a little-known record, but I never knew Stephen Luscombe (later of Blancmange) played in the Portsmouth Sinfonia. He also seems to be on one of the Spontaneous Music Orchestra albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZZEfrRbdw
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
99% sure this is footage of Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode on keys, who was a floating member of The Korgis at this time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIInWCFsC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TYc-sX64A
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
John Linnell from They Might Be Giants played keyboards in this new wave band called the Mundanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmPPQGkDrA
― soref, Thursday, 22 June 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
xp The Korgis themselves were pretty much Stackridge with a skinny-tie makeoverhttp://www.stackridge.net/images/bandhi1.jpg
Not sure how little-known this is but a decade before "Pop Muzik" Robin Scott was being a psych-folker, his LP has its moments
https://youtu.be/dD3ttebZMkc
― Tim, Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link