Latest Release
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- 28 JUL 2023
- 3 Songs
- Poison Arrow - Single · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
- Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Live At Sheffield City Hall · 2023
Essential Albums
- The wit and rigour of ABC’s first album make it a standard-bearer for the opulent strain of '80s pop known as New Romanticism. Crooning, whispering or bellowing, Martin Fry is the group's suave centre of gravity; Trevor Horn's vivid production on disco-pop numbers like "Poison Arrow" and "The Look of Love, Pt. 1"—full of sparkling keys, slap bass, multitracked background vocals and digital artifice—only dials up the drama. That unlikely contrast between fastidiousness and heart-on-sleeve abandon yields songs as thrilling as love's first blush.
- 2005
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- The lexicon of poptimism.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
About ABC
ABC was the epitome of the flashy "new pop" sound that dominated the British charts in the first half of the '80s. The band's roots lay in the Sheffield electro-pop group Vice Versa, which shifted gears when singer/songwriter Martin Fry joined, moving towards a glam/soul sound that fit in nicely with the Duran Duran/Spandau Ballet New Romantic school. Fry's Bowie/Roxy Music-influenced image and witty lyrics, along with the band's smashing pop hooks and Trevor Horn's lush production, earned the band a batch of hits straight out of the gate with 1982's THE LEXICON OF LOVE. While ABC never duplicated that album's success, they persevered through stylistic shifts and personnel changes, achieving a longevity few might have predicted.
- ORIGIN
- Sheffield, England
- FORMED
- 1980
- GENRE
- Pop