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Power Station
Band New York United States Active 1984–1985
Power Station formed in 1984 in New York, United States and was active until 1985. Power Station has 15 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Some Like It Hot”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #42. The station that charted Power Station most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.
The Power Station were a busman's holiday that turned into a band. In late 1984, with Duran Duran taking a break that stretched on and on, bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor holed up in New York with singer Robert Palmer and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson, and they named the band after the New York studio where they cut the album.
Chic's Bernard Edwards produced it, and for a while he managed them too. The Power Station, released in 1985, sounds exactly like that collision should: Thompson's drums are gigantic, booming like cannon fire, the Taylors lay down funk-rock grooves with a glam-rock swagger, and Palmer croons over the top, cool as you like. "Some Like It Hot" is all brass and bravado, "Communication" pumps along with sleek menace, and "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" rattles the windows.
Michael Des Barres also passed through the ranks in 1985. On the band's second album, Edwards took over John Taylor's bass parts.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Power Station on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 8 | #42 | – | 1985 | |
| 2 | Bang a Gong (Get It On) | 3 | #66 | – | 1985 | |
| 3 | Get It On (Bang A Gong) | 2 | #195 | – | – | |
| 4 | Communication | 1 | #57 | – | 1985 | |
| 5 | Get It On | 1 | #373 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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