For the second instalment of the 2015 Jemusography A-Z we're staying with the alphabet theme and ABC, formed in Sheffield in 1980 when frontman and singer Martin Fry joined a band called 'Vice Versa' formed a year earlier.
ABC didn't take long to seize the New Romantic crown of the early 1980s, launching their success with three mega-singles - Tears are not enough (1981), Poison Arrow (1982), and The look of love (1982).
The 1980s were the band's heyday with five album releases:
- The Lexicon of Love (1982)
- Beauty Stab (1983)
- How to be a zillionaire (1985)
- Alphabet City (1987), and
- Up (1989)
There were also a couple of 1990's albums and one come-back attempt in 2008
- Abracadabra (1991)
- Skyscraping (1997), and
- Traffic (2008)
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