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ABC
Years - 1980-future (new material and live)
Best Song - Poison Arrow (#25 in UK - 20/2/82 and 6/3/82, #3 in Melbourne)
Origin - Sheffield, England
Driving Force - Style
About Six Feet
Years - 1992-future
Best Song - Miasma
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - About Six Feet's approach is the polar opposite of the sequencers-or-die attitude of the BPM gang.
Adam and the Ants
Years - 1977-90 (Adam is of course now solo and involved in films, getting married and performed live with Marco recently)
Best Song - Ant Music (#2 in UK - 17/1/81-31/1/81, #1 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Theatrics from bondage to Indian and beyond
A Flock of Seagulls
Years - 1979-present (new live album and new/remix mixed album planned)
Best Song - I Ran (#43 in UK, #9 in US, #1 in Melbourne)
Origin - England
Driving Force - "I always experimented with my hair, doing wild things with it. I wanted the effect of seeing a silhouette and nor knowing what kind of weird beast it was - an owl, a unicorn or what." Mike Score.
Age 1 and 2
Years - 1984-86
Best Song - Dance 51
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - "We deliver,....."
Alphaville
Years - 1984-present
Best Song - Big in Japan (#4 in UK - 22/9/84)
Origin - Germany
Driving Force -
Altered Images
Years - 1979-83
Best Song - Happy Birthday (#1 in UK - 7/11/81, #18 in Oz, #25 in Melbourne)
Origin - Glasgow, Scotland
Driving Force - Shirly Temple punk
Animotion
Years - 1985 or so
Best Song - Obsession (#5 in UK - 15/6/85, #9 in Melbourne)
Origin -
Driving Force - Obsession
The Art of Noise
Years - 1983-present
Best Song - Moments in Love
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - "...a spanner is intrinsically more interesting than the lead singer of Tears For Fears."
"I don't think there's any talk of the three of us getting back together again. We feel that we wrote some very strong pages in the book of pop music; pages that went to form a very strong chapter. We that there was a definite start, middle and end, and it should be left at that."
The Associates
Years - 1976-90 (Billy McKenzie found dead 22/1/97, Alan Rankine died peacefully at home 3/1/23)
Best Song - Party Fears Two (#9 in UK - 3/4/82)
Origin - Scotland
Driving Force - Billy MacKenzie's pet Whippets