English band formed in Isle of Wight in 1980. They have had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s.

Scotland-based artist Dave Miles is painting a tribute portrait of late Level 42 guitarist Boon Gould, hoping it will be displayed at Shanklin Theatre, Isle of Wight.

80s Hitmakers Celebrating 40th Anniversary of Landmark 'World Machine' Album "The aim of the video is to show tour promoters here in the States that there is indeed high demand for Level 42 to return ...

If you were a musical act plying your trade in the 80s, regardless of which genre you might have started out populating, at some point you likely tried to gravitate to the pop charts. Doing so while ...

'Starchild'! Mark King, the slap bassist and lead vocalist in iconic '80s group Level 42, fell in love with music after hearing the late Cream bassist and rock icon Jack Bruce. King doesn't think he ...

It would be unfair to think of Level 42 as a one-hit wonder. Children of the 1980s will remember their Top-10 hit “Something About You”—a song that was as inescapable in the spring of 1986 as it was ...

The 1980s were pretty weird, weren’t they? When you weren’t squirting gallons of hair spray onto your mullet and making sure your shoulder pads were large enough to land a helicopter on. You may have ...

1 April 1987 Level 42 construct a tightly-sprung, chattering bedrock of rhythm which satisfies the lower half of the body, and from there they set about exciting the waist up Wembley Arena That music ...

Rowland ‘Boon’ Gould of Level 42 has died, the band have confirmed. The news was broken was by the band’s bassist on Twitter this morning (Wednesday May 1), when Mark King wrote of his sadness at the ...

It is to Level 42's credit that in a decade where there were an awful lot of artists that sounded the same, they were truly unique. Combining Mark King's funk bass style with keyboard induced pop ...