Missing Persons is an American group formed in 1980 in Los Angeles by Warren Cuccurullo, Dale Bozzio and Terry Bozzio (then husband and wife). Group that will build a large part of its reputation around the voice and extraordinary look of its singer Dale Bozzio.
The year of their training, they released an eponymous mini-album and made multiple appearances, either at concerts or outright in films like Lunch Wagon. Thus ensuring the Single "Mental Hopscotch" a leading promotion and the mini-album a significant success.
Things really got going two years later in 1982 when the album "Spring session M" (actually an anagram of Missing Persons) was released. Album which is a real hit and which will produce no less than 4 hits ! With in mind the title "Words", flagship title carried by a clip where special effects are all the rage for their innovative side.
Dazzling success but fleeting success because the two albums which would be released subsequently, "Rhyme & Reason" in 1984 and "Color in your life" in 1986, were only very successful.
So much so that the tour following the release of "Color in Life" will end in fiasco and will see the separation of Dale and Terry Bozzio, as well as the dislocation of the group in the wake !
When we thought we would never see them again, they reappeared, to say the least, unexpectedly in the middle of the 2000s and restarted the machine in an impressive way. To the point of still being present today and offering things of more than certain quality...
To discover or rediscover...
Discography (among others ...) :
80s Decade :
Mental hopscotch 1982
Words 1982
Destination unknown 1982
Windows 1983
Walking in L.A. 1983
Give 1984
Right now 1984
Surrender your heart 1984
I can’t think about dancing 1986
Colour in your life 1986
2000s Decade :
Turning Japenese 2007
Let's dance 2007
Love her madly 2007
2010s Decade :
Hello hello 2014
Covert operation 2014
The more we love 2014
All the way 2014
Siren song 2014
Last Christmas 2019
2020s Decade :
Lipstick 2020
Dreaming 2020
Playing with fire 2020
This is the day 2020
Ice blue eyes 2023
Because of you I'm crying 2023
Tracks :
1982 ... a promising start, with a particularly successful first track and a very trendy sound. All good !
1982 ... and quality pays off. Result of the races : here they land their first global top hit. A deserved reward !
1982 ... for a first year, it's a HUGE year with no less than 3 titles including 2 top global hits. Class !
1983 ... after a start that will be described as a smashing start, the rest will be a step below. Predictable as the starting level was high ...
1983 ... but even if it's a notch below, it's still well above average !
1984 ... an extraordinary journey and yet we are already at the last notorious hit. A shattering success but a fall of the same level ...
1984 ... a new year with 3 titles but which will not have the same level of success as 1982, it is clear. Too bad, because quality is always essential ...
1984 ... the excessiveness of the group and in particular of its singer is no longer enough to create the event. And yet, it is not for lack of trying ...
1986 ... a 1985 empty year. We find them a year more on a title that offers them their very last hit. An end of the adventure which is fast approaching ...
1986 ... come on, a little last for the road. Always so rock, always so typical US. But that's what makes them successful too ...
2007...while we thought the matter was definitively over concerning them, here they are back in an unexpected way to say the least. Who would've believed that...
2007...a return that rhymes with luxury covers of titles that marked the 80s. After the Vapors title dating from 1980, it is the turn of one of David Bowie's most emblematic titles dating from 1983 to have the favor of the group...
2007...this time it's the turn of the Doors and their title dating from 1971 to be brought up to date. Revisited versions which are far from unworthy, to say the least...
2014...we will lose sight of them for almost 7 years but here they are back in any case in the middle of the decade 2010...
2014...a return that will delight the core fans once again. Especially since the group returns with a new opus of more than obvious quality...
2014...then we're not going to lie, the best years are now behind theùm but what they now offer is definitely worth the detour !
2014...it would have been a shame not to bring it back to light in any case. So we might as well make the most of it as much as we can...
2014...a desire to believe in it until the end which undoubtedly commands respect. So in music nothing is ever finished...
2019...new air hole of 5 years but here they are again. All thanks to this revisited version this time of the emblematic title of Wham! dating from 1984...
2020...they will go as far as they can and here they are proudly attacking this new decade of 2020. Once again the core fans are in heaven...
2020...who could have imagined in 1986 when the group imploded that they would subsequently come back and still be here in 2020 ? Not many people, that's for sure...
2020...exceptional longevity for a group which has been able to overcome trials and difficulties in an impressive manner each time...
2020...especially since they will feel less and less alone because more and more groups from the 80s have decided to come back as well...
2023...a 'revival' of the 80s which proves that all these groups really had talent to spare. And they always have...
2023...we therefore imagine that this title will certainly not be the last. It remains to be seen when they will decide to come back...
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