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Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo which featured vocalist Marc Almond and musician David Ball. The duo is most known for their 1981 cover of Gloria Jones’s “Tainted Love”. The duo celebrated ten Top 40 hits in the UK and four Top 20 albums. The duo split up in 1984 and eventually reunited for a tour in 2001. The image featured on this button is an image of the duo taken during the promotion of their 1981 album “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret”, which evoked images of adult film distributors. 

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The English heavy metal band, Judas Priest, released their second album, entitled Sad Wings of Destiny in 1976. The illustration on this button is a reproduction of the album's cover art, a piece called Fallen Angel by commissioned artist Patrick Woodroffe, depicting a struggling, grounded angel surrounded by flames and wearing a devil's three-pronged cross, which was the band's symbol. It is the only Judas Priest album to feature drummer Alan Moore. 

Sad Wings of Destiny at first had little commercial success, competing with the rise of punk rock. The band supported the album with a three-month tour of the UK, and CBS Records took note. Judas Priest went on to sign with CBS Records and received a large budget to produce their next album, Sin After Sin, released the following year. 

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Signals is the ninth album from Canadian rock group, Rush. The album was released in 1982 and reached number 10 on the Billboard album charts. The album was released as a follow-up to their Moving Pictures album and continued the usage of the synthesizer and contemporary lyrics.   

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The band Rush released the boxed collectible set Archives in 1978. It contained the first three releases of the band. While it did not feature the album 2112, the artwork from that album is what appears on the cover. There were no extra features included and no additional music. The album was only released on cassette tape and vinyl.

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The Canadian rock band Rush released their fourth album 2112 in 1976, which later went gold. The concept album's song lyrics described a dystopian world set in the year 2112, which bore similarities to the plot of Ayn Rand's novella, Anthem. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and was also recognized by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada as a culturally significant classic worthy of preservation in 2006.

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REO Speedwagon is an American rock band that was founded in 1967. This button is from the band's tour for their album Nine Lives, which was released in 1979 and later went gold. The album title was selected to showcase that it was the band's ninth album, and it also included nine songs.

Photograph of Rachel Sweet

Rachel Sweet is an American singer from Akron, Ohio. She began her singing career at the age of 6 singing for commercials, touring with Mickey Rooney and opening for Bill Cosby’s Las Vegas act. She released 4 albums and 16 singles throughout her singing career. Her last song was the title track for John Waters’ Hairspray. She retired from singing to continue school and focus on acting.

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John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne was the lead singer for Black Sabbath from 1969 until his dismissal in 1979. Several of his nicknames include Ozzy, the Prince of Darkness, The Godfather of Metal and Madman. As a solo artist, he released eleven albums of which the first seven earned multi-platinum certification in the United States. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath and into the UK Music Hall of Fame as a solo artist. Ozzy has admittedly abused drugs and alcohol for the majority of his life. HIs behavior during this bouts, such as biting the heads off animals, has contributed to his success. Most recently he and his family were on the MTV reality television show, The Osbournes.

Photograph of Ozzy Ozbourne wearing a red cloak and holding a cross. Red and white text on a multicolored background. 

The image on this button is a version of the cover art for Blizzard of Oz, the debut solo album by British heavy metal and hard rock vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. The album was released in the UK in September 1980 and in the US in March 1981, and was the first release from Osbourne since he was fired from the group Black Sabbath in 1979. The majority of the album was written by Osbourne, guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Bob Daisley. Rhoads recorded a second album with Osbourne, Diary of a Madman, released in 1981, prior to Rhoads' death in a plane accident while touring in 1982. 

Photograph of Ozzy Osbourne and band

John Michael “Ozzy” Osborne was the lead singer for Black Sabbath from 1969 until his dismissal in 1979. Several of his nicknames include Ozzy, the Prince of Darkness, The Godfather of Metal and Madman. His first album after his dismissal from Black Sabbath was the Blizzard of Oz and was released in September 1980. It was one of two albums that Osborne was able to record with guitarist Randy Rhoads before Rhoads’ death. As a solo artist, he released eleven albums of which the first seven earned multi-platinum certification in the United States.