In the early 1980s Marc Almond was half of which pop duo?
"This Last Night in Sodom This Last Night in Sodom is the third full-length album by the English synthpop duo Soft Cell. It was released in March 1984, about a month after the duo (Marc Almond and David Ball) publicly announced they were dissolving the partnership. The album peaked at number 12 in the UK Album Chart, and would be Soft Cell's last album for 18 years. The album represents a shift in style from the delicate, erotic, dancefloor-friendly pop of their earlier records and contains a more eclectic mix of styles as well, from the Spanish-influenced ""L'Esqualita"" (inspired by"
"single, ""What!"". This was a cover of the 1965 song by Melinda Marx. It was later covered in 1968 by Judy Street, whose version became extremely popular on the Northern Soul scene. Almond later admitted that the album was recorded and mixed under the influence of ecstasy. ""What!"" placed at No. 101 in US Charts. but was a major hit in the UK and reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in August of that year By 1983, fame and nearly constant drug use were having a bad effect on the duo. Marc Almond also formed the group Marc"
"Mark-Almond Mark–Almond was a jazz-influenced English pop group of the 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes also called The Mark-Almond Band. The core members were Jon Mark, who sang lead and played guitar, percussion, and harmonica and Johnny Almond who played saxophone, flute and bass flute and sang back-up. Various other musicians recorded and toured with the duo at various times, notably including drummer Dannie Richmond, a long-time associate of jazz bassist Charles Mingus. In 1963, Jon Mark, using his given name John Michael Burchell, and a former schoolmate, Alun Davies; singer-songwriter, folk guitarist and skiffle musician, (later of Cat Stevens'"
"of 1980s synth-pop was its ""emotional, at times operatic singers"" such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for large groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Although synth-pop in part arose from punk rock, it abandoned punk's emphasis on ""authenticity"" and often pursued a deliberate ""artificiality"", drawing on the critically derided forms such as disco and glam rock. It owed relatively little to the foundations of early popular music in jazz, folk music or the blues, and instead of looking to America,"
"Marc Almond's ""pervy"" leather jacket, skirt wearing by figures including Martin Gore of Depeche Mode and the early ""dominatrix"" image of the Eurythmics' Annie Lennox. In the U.S. this led to British synth-pop artists being characterised as ""English haircut bands"" or ""art fag"" music, though many British synth-pop artists were highly popular on both American radio and MTV. Although some audiences were overtly hostile to synth-pop, it achieved an appeal among those alienated from the dominant heterosexuality of mainstream rock culture, particularly among gay and female audiences. By the mid-1980s, synth-pop had helped establish the synthesizer as a primary instrument"
"After the concert Almond stated that """"The Meltdown performance was so special and well executed that it would be hard to top that with any show I may do in the future let alone Torment And Toreros"""". He asked himself whether he would ever perform it again, and answered """"A few weeks ago I may have said never now I can only say never say never. If the budget was met and the occasion right…"""" Marc and the Mambas Marc and the Mambas was a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond in 1982 as an offshoot project from Soft"
"Cioe. Sherlock played with The at their month-long Marquee Club residency in London. Matt Johnson recommended Sherlock to Marc Almond. Marc and the Mambas was a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond, in 1982 as an offshoot project from Soft Cell. Notably the only consistent members of Marc and the Mambas were Marc Almond, Anne Hogan and Steve James Sherlock. Almond and Sherlock, together with Annie Hogan recorded as Marc and the Mambas. His inventive playing featured prominently on 'Torment and Toreros'. Sherlock notably sharing writing credits with Almond for the track Narcissus for the album. Marc and the"
"pop music duo, in 1998 in Townsville. After a few gigs the host of a club they were performing at dubbed them Women in Docs referring to their footwear, Doc Martens. The duo were Chanel Marie Lucas on lead vocals, guitar,and bass guitar; and Roslyn ""Roz"" Pappalardo on lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar and harmonica. They had performed together since they were students at James Cook University, Townsville Campus. With friends they formed rock and roll covers bands 'Viridian' and later 'Sandwich Bar', and worked in North Queensland from offshore islands to inland mining camps. After years apart the two"
"band), recorded as a duo, an album entitled ""Relax Your Mind"", on Decca Records. From 1965 on, Mark accompanied Marianne Faithfull on her recordings and concerts. Moreover, he wrote and arranged some songs for her. In 1968 Mark and Davies founded the short-lived band Sweet Thursday. The five-piece band had only one recording, the eponymous ""Sweet Thursday"" on Fontana Records. The band was composed of Jon Mark, Alun Davies, Nicky Hopkins, Harvey Burns, and Brian Odgers. However, the album was not promoted by their record label, and the bandmates never toured. Johnny Almond, born John Albert Almond on 20 July"
"entrepreneur Stevo Pearce, who at the time was compiling a ""futurist"" chart for the music papers Record Mirror and ""Sounds"" which featured young, upcoming and experimental bands of the new wave of electronic sound. He signed the duo to his Some Bizzare label and they enjoyed a string of nine Top 40 hit singles and four Top 20 albums in the UK between 1981 and 1984. They recorded three albums in New York with producer Mike Thorne: ""Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret"", ""Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing"" and ""The Art of Falling Apart"". Almond became involved with the New York Underground Art Scene"
"Alan White, Jimmy Crawford, Steve Hammond, Roger Sutton and Johnny Wiggins. On ""Hollywood Blues"" he jams with Curtis Amy, Hadley Caliman, Joe Harris, Charles Kynard, Ray Neapolitan, Joe Pass, Earl Palmer und Vi Redd. In the same year he joined John Mayall's (post-Bluesbreakers) with whom he toured and recorded The Turning Point (1969) and Empty Rooms (1969). There he met Jon Mark with whom he decided to form Mark-Almond. Mark-Almond's first two albums, ""Mark-Almond"" (1971) and ""Mark-Almond II"" (1972) were recorded for Bob Krasnow's Blue Thumb label, and were noted for their embossed envelope-style album covers. For the first album,"
"Tik and Tok Tik and Tok are the robotic mime and music duo of Tim Dry and Sean Crawford. They began performing together with Shock, a rock/mime/burlesque/music troupe in the early 1980s with Barbie Wilde, Robert Pereno, L.A. Richards and Carole Caplin. Shock's first record ""Angel Face"", with production by Rusty Egan and Richard James Burgess, was a modest dance floor hit. In 1981, Shock co-starred with Ultravox at the 'People's Palace Valentine's Ball' at the Rainbow Theatre. Shock went on to support Gary Numan at his Wembley Arena shows in April, 1981. They eventually broke up and reformed as"
"and produced with his wife Thelma Burchell won a Grammy Award in 2004. Almond lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He died on 18 November 2009 from cancer, aged 63. He occasionally surprised local bar owners, arriving with his sax to jam, some of which was recorded, including a rousing rendition of Stormy Monday. Mark-Almond Mark–Almond was a jazz-influenced English pop group of the 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes also called The Mark-Almond Band. The core members were Jon Mark, who sang lead and played guitar, percussion, and harmonica and Johnny Almond who played saxophone, flute and bass flute"
"Memphis (band) Memphis is a musical duo consisting of long-time friends Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont. Dumont, originally from North Carolina, first met Campbell in New York City in the early 1990s. With Campbell's childhood friends Chris Seligman, James Shaw, and Adam Marvy, the pair played together in a band called Luxe. Later, Seligman and Campbell would form Canada's indie pop group Stars, while Shaw would go on to form Metric with Emily Haines, with Dumont continuing to work on the carousel in New York's Central Park. Following the initial success of Stars, Campbell invited Dumont to visit in Vancouver,"
"the 1980s, this made it easier for two-member bands to add in musical elements that the two band members were not able to perform. Sequencers allowed bands to pre-program some elements of their performance, such as an electronic drum part and a synth bass line. Two-member pop music bands such as Soft Cell, Blancmange and Yazoo used pre-programmed sequencers. Other pop bands from the 1980s which were ostensibly fronted by two performers, such as Wham!, Eurythmics and Tears for Fears, were not actually two-piece ensembles, because other instrumental musicians were used ""behind the scenes"" to fill out the sound. Modern"
"pop"". By mid-1969 Glass had left to join the cast of ""Hair"" and Stockley left to join Axiom, and they were replaced by Chris Löfvén on bass guitar and Russell Smith on guitar, respectively. The group issued a second EP, ""Cam-Pact / Pastoral Symphony"", with two tracks by Cam-Pact and two by label mates, Pastoral Symphony, which were a studio ensemble. Soon after Cook was replaced in Cam-Pact by Bill Blissett on organ and vocals. In September that year they released another single, ""Zoom Zoom Zoom"", and an EP of that name. Early in 1970 Ray Arnott (ex-Chelsea Set, Browns)"
"1989. The music video for this version was filmed on-location in Las Vegas. Marc Almond originally recorded the song as a solo track for his album The Stars We Are and was released as a follow up to this single ""Tears Run Rings"". By then, Gene Pitney had heard of Almond's version and offered to re-record it with him, as a duet. This version replaced the solo version which was put on the B-side of the single. The duet reached number one on the UK singles chart in February 1989. The song was covered by Vicky Leandros in 1968, along"
"duo Eurythmics. The band originally took their name from the 1950 Marilyn Monroe film ""Niagara"". They became famous in France when they issued in 1985 their first single, ""Tchiki boum"", which was followed in the summer 1986 by their second single, ""L'amour à la plage"". 200,000 copies of each single were sold in France. Driven by Laporte's charisma and vocal style, the duo released their first album in 1986, ""Encore un dernier baiser"" which included their first two hits and a new single, ""Je dois m'en aller"". Their second and most popular release was the album ""Quel enfer!"" in 1989"
"pop charts. The Two of Us (Yarbrough & Peoples album) The Two of Us is the debut album by the R&B duo Yarbrough & Peoples, released in 1980 on Mercury Records. It was produced by LA based producer Lonnie Simmons, who would go on to form Total Experience Records the following year, and veteran songwriter Jonah Ellis. ""The Two of Us"" contained the couple's biggest hit, ""Don't Stop the Music"", which went to #1 on the R&B charts, #26 on the dance charts, and #19 on the pop charts. The album peaked at #1 on the R&B Charts and #16"
"form their own double act. Barbie went back to acting and TV presenting. Carole went on to become a lifestyle advisor to Cherie Blair. Shock (troupe) Shock were a music/mime/dance/pop group that was notable in the early 1980s for supporting English new wave groups such as Gary Numan, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode and Famous Names, led by Steve Fairnie. In 1979, mime artists Tim Dry and Barbie Wilde united with actors Robert Pereno and Lowri-Ann Richards and dancer Karen Sparks to produce Shock. In April 1980, they recruited another mime, Sean Crawford. The line-up changed again with the"
"acts like Visage, Ultravox, Duran Duran and Japan. There were also more straight forwardly pop acts like The Human League as well as Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, and Yazoo. Other key artists from the early-mid-1980s include Eurythmics, Talk Talk, A Flock of Seagulls, Tears for Fears, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, OMD, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Bronski Beat, Heaven 17, Howard Jones , Blancmange and Erasure. Hi-NRG (High Energy) is high-tempo disco music (often with electronic instrumentation), as well as a more specific, derivative genre of electronic dance music that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s. In"
"the UK and top 40 in the US. and Thompson Twins, whose popularity peaked in 1984 with the album ""Into The Gap"", which reached No.1 in the UK and the US top ten and spawned several top ten singles. Initially dismissed in the music press as a ""teeny bop sensation"" were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synth-pop, which, along with an MTV friendly video, took their 1985 single ""Take On Me"" to number two in the UK and number one in the US. Synth-pop continued into the late 1980s, with"
"the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 and 1986. New Romantic emerged as the dominant force in the singles charts at the beginning of the 1980s. Originally part of the new wave music movement in London nightclubs including Billy's and The Blitz Club towards the end of the 1970s and influenced by David Bowie and Roxy Music, it further developed glam rock fashions, gaining its name from the frilly fop shirts of early Romanticism. Among the commercially"
"The Osmonds, where family members Donny and Marie both enjoyed individual success as well as success as a duo apart from the main family (Donny also recorded with his brothers as The Osmonds). Other successful singers and bands appealing to tweens and teens were Leif Garrett, Bobby Sherman, The DeFranco Family, David Cassidy and The Partridge Family, Shaun Cassidy, The Bay City Rollers and The Jackson 5 to name a few. The first major wave of teen pop after the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s occurred in the mid to late 1980s, with artists such as Menudo, New Edition,"
"New Edition) and apply it to a pop genre. Bros (abbreviation of the word ""brothers"") were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan. Formed in 1986, they scored multiple top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 and in 1988 became the first modern era–style boy band to have a multiple platinum-selling album in Britain, with ""Push"", still one of the most successful boy-band albums in the UK. Other big boy bands in Britain during the late 1980s were Big Fun and Brother Beyond."
"Marc Almond and founded the ambient-indie-dance band Cactus Rain. Signing to Virgin Records offshoot ""Ten Records"" the band released an album as well as singles ""Each Day, Till Comes The Morning"" and ""Mystery Train"", the latter was remixed by William Orbit. In 2009 Cold Spring re-released Hogan's 1985 EP ""Annie Hogan Plays Kickabye"". The EP was originally on Cabaret Voltaire's Doublevision label. The ""Kickabye EP"" included Marc Almond and Nick Cave recording guest vocals and Siouxsie and The Banshees drummer, Budgie, on drums and harmonica. The re-release included the unreleased follow up EP produced by Barry Adamson and early collaborations"
"up to anything cohesive"", whilst acknowledging that Almond has ""made a conscious departure from Soft Cell"". Untitled (Marc and the Mambas album) Untitled is the first studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond's band Marc and the Mambas. It was released by Some Bizzare in September 1982. ""Untitled"" was Almond's first album away from Soft Cell and was made in collaboration with a number of artists, including Matt Johnson of The The and Anni Hogan. The album was produced by the band, with assistance from Stephen Short (credited as Steeve Short) and Flood. Jeremy Reed writes in his biography"
"before releasing an album. In the 1990s Noel Ram became a dance producer, performing and remixing a number of singles. 7"" Singles: 12"" Singles: Two People (band) Two People was a mid-1980s British band consisting of Mark Stevenson (lead vocals/guitar) and Noel Ram (guitar/vocals). They released a number of singles between 1985 and 1987, scoring two minor hits in the UK Charts with the songs ""This is the Shirt"" and ""Heaven"". They featured on BBC Radio 1 In Concert in 1985, backed by their live band Brad Lang (bass), Ian Penman (keyboards) and Steve Creese (drums). Their record producers included"
"Two People (band) Two People was a mid-1980s British band consisting of Mark Stevenson (lead vocals/guitar) and Noel Ram (guitar/vocals). They released a number of singles between 1985 and 1987, scoring two minor hits in the UK Charts with the songs ""This is the Shirt"" and ""Heaven"". They featured on BBC Radio 1 In Concert in 1985, backed by their live band Brad Lang (bass), Ian Penman (keyboards) and Steve Creese (drums). Their record producers included Nigel Gray, Neil O'Connor and Chris Porter. They were signed to Polydor Records, but despite much promotion, their singles failed expectations and were dropped"
"would opt to write the song that appears on the B-side as this would still entitle the artist to some songwriting royalties stemming from sales of that single. However, as Soft Cell wrote neither ""Tainted Love"" nor ""Where Did Our Love Go"" (the 7"" B-side track), they lost the opportunity to make a greater sum of money from songwriting royalties stemming from one of the most popular songs of the 1980s. Almond expressed regret for this in his book, and attributed the error to naïveté. The duo's first album, ""Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret"", hit UK No. 5 and further explored the"
"Mark-Almond Band. Alun Davies (guitarist) Alun Davies (born 1942) is a Welsh guitarist, studio musician, recording artist, and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for English musician Cat Stevens, from early 1970 to 1977. Prior to his association with Stevens, Davies co-wrote, sang, and performed on two albums: in 1963, with Jon Mark, (known then as John Michael Burchell) and in 1968, as a member of the band Sweet Thursday with Mark, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers , when folk-rock music was still in its infancy. When"
"Phil Drummond Phil Drummond (born Philip Phillips) is a British electronic music producer best known for his work with the band Xpansions and singer and actress Sally Ann Marsh and their song ""Move Your Body."" Drummond was brought up in a working-class family in the London borough of Enfield. He attended Bullsmoor Secondary school (now Lea Valley High School) until 1990. His professional career in electronic music started when he was still in school. In the 1990s, Drummond, nicknamed Pip, had four UK top 40 singles as Xpansions and Marradonna alongside Richie Malone while signed to Arista Records and Pete"
"Jamaican [[ska]] and British [[2 Tone (music genre)|two tone]] ska/punk fusionists from the early 1980s. [[Techno music|Techno]] also became popular, though nowhere's near as much so as in most of the rest of the world. At the turn of the millennium, [[bubblegum pop]] groups like [[Backstreet Boys]] and [[Britney Spears]] were dominating the charts, many of them with a Latin beat ([[Shakira]], [[Ricky Martin]]), and rappers like [[Jay-Z]] and [[Eminem]] were huge stars. Some [[garage rock]] revivalists like [[The White Stripes]] and [[The Hives]] became highly hyped bands in the [[indie rock]] field, and achieved substantial mainstream success. The first"