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  Established in 1998, Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture and social history


THE BAND

Trevor Horn
Anne Dudley
JJ Jeczalik
Gary Langan
Paul Morley

Art of Noise


Before they helped Max Headroom to hit the charts (Paranoimia) or resurrected the careers of Tom Jones (Kiss) and Duane Eddy (Peter Gunn), Art Of Noise brought sampling to the masses.

In the mid-80s it was easy to label Art Of Noise as pretentious, uncool art snobs. With an elitist style that coupled Paul Morley's eccentric sleevenote pontification with the bands techno synth pop, they took their music to the upper classes during the height of yuppiedom.