Chanteur et guitariste chez King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie, ... Adrian Belew entamera aussi une carrière solo plus personnelle et surtout très libre comme il l'a toujours voulue. Le style est en général plus direct, plus simple que King Crimson et en vérité très proche des...Beatles ! Bien sûr, la technique est toujours au rendez-vous et les albums peuvent varier d'ambiance à chaque fois (" Desire caught by the tail " est par exemple totalement instrumental et experimental). Il est aussi fondateur du groupe THE BEARS, dans un style tres pop.

ADRIAN BELEW: LONE RHINO (1982)
Adrian Belew: guit, drums, lead voc
Christy Bley: keyb, voc
Clif Mayhugh: bass, voc
Bill Jansen: sax, voc
Audie Belew: piano on The final Rhino

ADRIAN BELEW: TWANG BAR KING (1984)
Adrian Belew: guit, lead voc
Christy Bely: keyb, voc
Clif Mayhugh: bass, voc
Bill jansen: sax, voc
Larrie Londin: drums

ADRIAN BELEW: DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL (1986)
Adrian Belew: guit, percu

ADRIAN BELEW: DESIRE OF THE RHINO KING (BO)
-The final Rhino
-The lone Rhinoceros
-Big electric cat
-The Momur
-Hot sun
-The man in the moon
-Swingline
-Adidas in heat
(from LONE RHINO )
-Fish head
-The ideal woman
-Sexy Rhino
-Twang bar king
-Paint the road
-She is not dead
-The rail song
-Ballet for a blue whale
( from TWANG BAR KING)
-The Gypsy Zurna
-Joan Miro's procession through the inside of a purple antelope across a sea of tuna fish
-Portrait of Margaret
-Laughing man
-Guernica

ADRIAN BELEW: MR. MUSIC HEAD (1989)

ADRIAN BELEW: YOUNG LIONS (1990)
-Young lions
-Pretty pink rose*
-Heartbeat
-Looking for a UFO
-I am what I am $
-Not alone anymore
-Men in helicopters
-Small world
-Phone call from the moon
-Gunman*

Adrian Belew: all instruments and vocals
+
David Bowie: voc and compo on *
The prophet Omega: voice and compo on $
Van Kampen percussion ensemble on " Young lions "
(= Willem Van Kruysdijk, Mies Wilbrink, Dree Van Beeck, Ellen Gieles)
Mike Barnett: string bass on " Phone call "

ADRIAN BELEW: INNER REVOLUTION (1992)

ADRIAN BELEW: THE ACOUSTIC ADRIAN BELEW (1993)
-The lone Rhinoceros
-Peace on earth
-The man in the Moon
-The rail song
-If I fell
-Burned by the fire we make
-Matte Kudesai
-Dream life
-Old fat Cadillac
-Crying
-Martha adored

Adrian Belew: ac guit, voc

ADRIAN BELEW: OP ZOP TOO WAH (1996)
Entendu: toujours tres Beatles...avec la technique en plus !

ADRIAN BELEW: THE GUITAR AS ORCHESTRA (1997)
-Score with no film
-Portrait of the guitarist as a young drum
-Piano recital
-Laurence Harvey's despair
-Piano ballet
-Rings around the moon
-Seven e-flat elephants eating the acacia of a c# minor forest
-If only
-Alfred Hitchcok's "Strangers on a train" starring Robert Walker
-Finale

A Belew: guit, guit synth, guit processors, guit effects, ...

Instrumental et experimental, inspire probablement des impro de Thrakattak.

ADRIAN BELEW: THE ACOUSTIC ADRIAN BELEW vol. 2 (1998)