Eurobeat Music

Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco.The term eurobeat, was first used in the UK, when the Stock Aitken Waterman team, created a commercial music genre, labelled - at the time - eurobeat. Those mid 80s hits (Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Jason Donovan, Sonia, Kylie Minogue, etc) were heavily based on how Italo-disco sounded to the Brits, during their holidays on popular 80s destinations (especially Greece, where Italo-disco was very popular). The same term also was used to describe the first hits from Pet Shop Boys and other UK-based dance electropop groups of the time.