Entirely too many to list but a few off the top of my head..
Cinderella
Ozzy when he first went solo
Badlands
Scandal
Saraya
Danger Danger
Bon Jovi
Y&T
Culture Club
General Public
R.E.M.
Robert Plant as a solo artist
Face To Face (the good band with Laurie Sargent as lead singer, not the punk outfit with the same name)
Dokken
Honeymoon Suite
Berlin
Night Ranger
D. Yankees
Living Colour
Lita Ford
Dan Reed Network
Aldo Nova
Billy Idol
Asia
Billy Squier
David Lee Roth as a solo artist
Mr. Big
Steve Vai
Def Leppard, even though their first EP was released in 1979
Joe Satriani
Extreme
Great White
Gary Moore
The Outfield
Pat Benatar
Not to mention all the great local and touring bar bands I got to see play in and around the Atlanta/Athens, GA area back then.
And on and on..I could never list them all. The 80's were a great time for rock and roll. I am forever grateful to have been a part of it and lived through it.