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ABC: Romancing Tongue In Chic
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, March 1982
FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of Barbara Windsor, The Professionals' Martin Shaw and Crossroads' Benny Hawkins ABC are tonight making a Public Appearance at Sheffield's Top Rank ...

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ABC, Essential Bop, Restricted Code: Bristol Bop! Glasgow Pop! It's As Easy As ABC!
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, December 1980
LEMON SUCKING refers to the practice of sucking in the cheeks to affect the 'rock'n'roll' wasted look. Chewing, or neck bending, refers, I would suppose, to ...

ABC: The Return of Big Fry
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, March 1982
More Tales From The Bean Factory from the hottest young fart at play. ...

ABC: The Lexicon Of Love
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1982
DESIRE SOMETIMES goes unreciprocated. Sad, but it happens. Martin Fry, the leader of ABC, does not accept this with equanimity. He stares at his blueprint for ...

ABC
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, December 1982
MARTIN FRY, a shy but conspicuous grammar school boy from Bramall, Stockport, shuffles into the bookshop where I sell second hand records. He buys the first ...

ABC: Past Imperfect, Future Tense
Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, January 1984
On the dreamstage of a pop-music fantasy, ABC were cast as the perfection of a glossy ideal. But their irony was misread, their clothes misconstrued. And ...

Agony and Ecstasy of ABC
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, June 1984
ALL EDUCATION begins with ABCs. This particular education is of the musical sort, concerning one Sheffield-based trio (formerly quartet) that took its alphabetical beliefs and translated ...

Martin Fry: When Martin Sings…
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2001
"IT WAS GREAT doing interviews when I first started, cos I'd just tell everyone what a brilliant, worldwide phenomenon ABC were going to be as I ...

“It Was Like Disco, But In A Bob Dylan Way”: The Lexicon Of Love
Sleevenotes by Daryl Easlea, Neutron/Mercury Records, November 2004
FEW ALBUMS DEFINE the resonance and the beauty of a particular era as does The Lexicon Of Love by ABC. It could be said that it ...

ABC/Human League/Heaven 17: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, The Guardian, December 2008
THERE ARE QUEUES around the building for the Sheffield groups who brought electro-funk (Heaven 17), orchestral disco (ABC) and synth pop (the Human League) to the ...

Second Comings: The Klaxons and the Struggle to Follow Up a Hit Debut Album
Comment by Pete Paphides, The Times, March 2009
IT TAKES SOME doing to instigate a backlash from your fans without actually releasing a record. Yet this month, by revealing that their record company, Polydor, ...

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