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Musical groups disestablished in 1987

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Modern Talking
German pop duo
The Smiths
British rock band
Journey
American rock band
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
British pop band
Berlin
American synthpop band
Q830761
American death metal band
Mahavishnu Orchestra
American musical group; jazz fusion band
Bay City Rollers
Scottish musical group; rock n pop band
Baltimora
Baltimora was an Italian music project from Milan, active from 1984 to 1987. They are best known for their 1985 single "Tarzan Boy" and are often considered a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom and the United States. In other European countries, including their native Italy, Baltimora scored a follow-up hit "Woody Boogie" the same year.
Violent Femmes
American alternative rock band
Discharge
British hardcore punk band
Renaissance
English progressive rock band
Amadeus Quartet
British string quartet (1947-1987)
The Chameleons
English post-punk band
Alcatrazz
Alcatrazz is an American rock band formed in 1983 by Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo, and Gary Shea. They are best known for their songs "Island in the Sun", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", and "God Blessed Video". They are also notable for featuring a previously unknown Yngwie Malmsteen as their lead guitarist for a year, who was then replaced by Steve Vai, with whom they recorded one album.
Big Black
American rock band
Tygers of Pan Tang
British heavy metal band
Scotch
Italian band
GTR
British band
Amebix
Amebix were an English crust punk band from Tavistock, Devon. A pioneer of the crust punk genre, Amebix's merger of anarcho-punk and post-punk with elements of heavy metal, particularly early extreme metal, inspired musicians who would go on to define the genres of grindcore, black metal, death-doom and metalcore.
Carnivore
American crossover thrash band
Univers Zéro
Belgian band
MARRS
MARRS (stylised M|A|R|R|S) were a 1987 recording collective formed by the groups A.R. Kane and Colourbox, which only released one commercial disc. It became "a one-hit wonder of rare influence" because of their international hit "Pump Up the Volume", which was their only single.
Fiction Factory
Scottish new wave band
Vandenberg
band
The Emotions
American vocal group from Chicago, Illinois
Scratch Acid
American noise rock band
Modern English
English New Wave band
Blancmange
English band
Onyanko Club
Japanese idol group
Pankrti
Pankrti (The Bastards in Slovene) are a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late 1970s and 1980s. They were known for provocative and political songs. They billed themselves as The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain (one of their songs was titled, Behind the iron curtain old broads pull red beet). They are one of the most important former Yugoslav punk groups and one of the first punk rock bands ever formed in a communist country.
LaSalle Quartet
American string quartet
The Shorts
Dutch countrypop group
Giuffria
Giuffria was an American rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in 1981 by Gregg Giuffria after his departure from the band Angel.
Double
Swiss music duo
Hell
British heavy metal band
Nena
German Neue Deutsche Welle band
Mary Jane Girls
music group from the United States
Make-Up
Japanese hard rock band
Rough Cutt
American rock band
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
American band
Ferry Aid
band
Nightmare
power metal band, native of Grenoble, France
Fat Larry's Band
American band
Angel
American rock band
Kat
Polish heavy metal band
Antisect
Antisect are a punk rock band based in London, England. Their roots are in hardcore/anarcho punk and metal.
Aerodrom
Yugoslav, now Croatian rock music group
Alice N' Chains
American glam metal band
V8
Argentine heavy metal band
The Danse Society
Post punk
The Pale Fountains
UK musical group
The Bongos
American band
Lone Justice
American country rock band
Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi
Japanese pop music duo
Warumpi Band
Australian musical group
Picture
Dutch heavy metal band
Derribos Arias
Spanish band (1981-1987)
Stress
Brazilian musical group; heavy metal band
Poison Girls
English anarcho-punk band