Warrior – Scandal Featuring Patty Smythĩ2. Couldn’t Stand The Weather – Stevie Ray VaughanĨ3. I Often Dream Of Trains – Robyn HitchcockĨ0. The Red Hot Chili Peppers – Red Hot Chili Peppersħ9.
A Walk Across The Rooftops – The Blue Nileĥ9. Three Of A Perfect Pair – King Crimsonĥ2. Beverly Hills Cop – Original Motion Picture SoundtrackĤ9. Welcome To The Pleasuredome – Frankie Goes To Hollywoodģ9. Big Bam Boom – Daryl Hall & John Oatesģ7. Footloose – Original Motion Picture Soundtrackģ6. Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise – Art Of Noiseģ3. Building The Perfect Beast – Don Henleyģ1. Rattlesnakes – Lloyd Cole & The Commotionsģ0.
Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolutionġ0. (The video was banned by MTV, as it was deemed too sexually charged).2. Self-Control – another cover of an Italo-Disco track by the artist Raf – would go on to become Branigan’s most celebrated work, and was especially popular in the emerging club scene of 1980s West Germany. Two years later, she was to release her third studio album Self-Control, containing a second Umberto Tozzi cover, Ti Amo and an original hit Satisfaction.
The English-spoken version of Gloria gained Branigan a Grammy Nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1983, alongside Olivia Newton-John and Linda Ronstadt. Her first self-titled album Branigan was released in 1982, including her first songwriting venture – I Wish We Could Be Alone – and the single Gloria, which spent 36 weeks in the chart. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody and her delivery was sensational.” “I immediately realised that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. “I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment,” said Ertegun during a 2005 interview. After graduating, she got her big break as backing vocalist for Leonard Cohen’s 1977 european tour, ultimately signing to Atlantic Records via the label’s founder Ahmet Ertegun as a solo artist in the early 80s. Born on Jin Armonk New York, Branigan showed an interest in performance from a young age, attending the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan as a teen.
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