a heroin overdose at age 21. Nina Hagen creates a media uproar after appearance on Austrian talk-show Club 2 discussing female orgasm and simulating masturbation. John Foxx left Ultravox for solo career early in the year, and replaced by ex-Rich Kids Midge Ure. Ramones star in the movie Rock and Roll High School. 1980s 1980 Bands formed The Adolescents Bad Religion The Fix GISM L-Seven The Meatmen Minutemen The Nip Drivers 7 Seconds Terveet Kädet Minor Threat Reagan Youth Rudimentary Peni Subhumans Youth Brigade Albums Angry Samoans – Inside My Brain (EP) The Beat – I Just Can't Stop It Black Flag – Jealous Again (EP) Blondie – Autoamerican Circle Jerks – Group Sex The Clash – Sandinista! (triple album) The Damned – The Black Album Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Discharge – Fight Back (EP) Discharge – Decontrol (EP) D.O.A. – Something Better Change Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Get Happy!! The Forgotten Rebels – In love with the system Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Taking Liberties Joy Division – Closer Minutemen – Paranoid Time The Misfits – Beware (EP) Nervous Gender - Live at Target (1980) Nina Hagen Band – Unbehagen Peter and the Test Tube Babies – Pissed and Proud Plasmatics – New Hope for the Wretched The Ramones – End of the Century Stiff Little Fingers – Nobody's Heroes Talking Heads – Remain in Light The Teen Idles – Minor Disturbance (EP) Toyah – Sheep Farming in Barnet The Undertones – Hypnotised The Weirdos – Action-Design (EP) X – Los Angeles Disbandments Joy Division The Teen Idles Germs Events Ian Curtis, Joy Division lead singer, commits suicide 18 May 1980 at age 23. The rest of the band become New Order Malcolm Owen, The Ruts lead singer, dies of a heroin overdose 14 July 1980 at age 26. Darby Crash, singer of the Germs, commits suicide 7 December 1980 at age 22. KROQ-FM establishes Top 106.7 Countdowns. The Clash and Dead Kennedys both reached on it on same year. Penelope Spheeris (Documentary film-maker) captures L.A. punk scene in cult hit The Decline of Western Civilization. Interviews/performances with So. Cal., Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, the Germs, and X. Rude Boy semi-documentary film is released. It stars Ray Gange as a roadie for The Clash and splices in live performances by the band. 1981 Bands formed Black