ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

I didn't question the importance, I'm just glad I was focused on the stuff that I can get paid for.   Also surprised at how many of those are "I know that guy" but I can't come up with the name. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

EXACTLY!

I was thinking yesterday that it was funny to me to see a lot of stuff represented there that was semi-obscure at the time. I bet I maybe knew 2 other people in the '80s who knew of Klaus Nomi.

 islander wrote:
 

We got a lot of important work to do TOO.

 ptooey wrote:
 

? I guess it's not an official key. ;-)

I wish the new site allowed us to color text because I was going to color code bands I've seen/met. Not as many as I thought there'd be.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Yeah, you figured he'd use a drawing from the "Take On Me" video as the starting point for drawing that guy.

Thank god I was busy yesterday and didn't drop in here. 

 ptooey wrote:
 

I don't know that I would know Nick Heyward in a photo. Did the artist go find obscure before-they-were-famous A-Ha pictures? Because what?

Row 1 (bottom row)
Nina Hagen, Sting, Tony Hadley, David Sylvian, Debora Iyall, Bob
Geldof, Annabella Lwin, Cyndi Lauper, Stan Ridgeway, Claire Grogan

Row 2 (from bottom, left to right):
Elvis Costello, Thomas Dolby, Tom Bailey, Chrissie Hynde, Terri Nunn, Trevor Horn, Dave Wakeling, Martin Frye, Jim Kerr

Row 3: Nena, Marc Almond, Nick Heyward, Morten Harket, Paul Weller, Rik
Ocasek, Peter Garrett, Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson

Row 4: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal, Mark Hollis, Phillip Oakey, Kevin
Rowland, Danny Elfman, Chris Lowe or Jim Reid, Neil Tennant, Bernard
Sumner

Row 5: Howard Jones, Lene Lovich, Mike
Peters, Liz Fraser, Robbie Grey, Michael Hutchence, Ivan Doroschuk,
Glenn Gregory, Aimee Mann, Richard Butler

Row 6: Mike Score, Mick Jones, Dale Bozzio, John Taylor, Simon LeBon, Terry Hall, Annie Lennox, Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphries

Row 7: Andy Bell, Ian McCulloch, Alison Moyet, Vince Clarke, Suggs, Dave
Gahan, Martin Gore, Limahl, Boy George, Jimmy Somerville

Row 8: Belinda Carlisle, Midge Ure, Siouxsie, Andrew Eldritch, Ian Curtis,
Mark Mothersbaugh, Joe Jackson, Pete Burns, Steve Strange

Row 9: Daniel Ash, Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Deborah Harry, Billy Idol, Nick
Cave, Andy Partridge, Bryan Ferry, Kate Bush, Roland Gift

Row 10 (top row): David Byrne, David Bowie, Johnny Lydon, Peter Murphy,
Robert Smith, Grace Jones, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi

Yeah, post the key. The ones I can't figure out aren't bugging me. Is Rick Astley in there?

 Proclivities wrote:
 
That absolutely looks like Patty Donahue, but the artist says it's Nena.   Yup, Marc Almond.  Nick Heyward and Morten Harket next to him.
 

 ptooey wrote:
 
It's interesting; he certainly is marketing the hell out of an era which occurred before he was probably born.  Fun stuff; good on him.  The other mystery guests are bugging me, so I wouldn't mind seeing an answer key.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Like I said, the guy who illustrated it looks to be in his mid-twenties to me. He's wrapped up in a nostalgia that he didn't experience. It's fine, but I think a little skewed. I can post the answer key if anyone wants.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Oh, that's right, Wales.  I thought the girl above Elvis Costello may be the singer from The Waitresses (and I guess Marc Almond from Soft Cell next to her). I'm not sure who the next two guys to the right are.

 ptooey wrote:
 

Which leaves U2 out of it entirely? Odd.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Welsh! They did one of their later albums in 2 languages. I'll bet that's on YouTube; I should go look for it.

Very much a derivative band... first the Clash, then morphed to U2 style. Excellent show, nice guys.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Oh, yeah; I forgot about them - the were sort of buried by U2.  Only room for one Irish new wave band at a time I guess.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Correctomundo.

I found a cheatsheet. Mystery sunglasses guy is Robbie Grey from Modern English.  That's supposed to be Stan Ridgway next to Clare Grogan, but I'm not seeing it. Given the artist's apparent age... Well, he weren't there at the time...

 ptooey wrote:
 

HoJo, Lene, Mike Peters (Alarm)

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

I guess it could be him - I figured the illustrator would've gone for the more teased-big-hair look that Bono had in the early '80s.  The guy above Cyndi?