Electronic Sound 90
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 14.91 MB
ABC’s ‘The Lexicon Of Love’ is 40 years old this month and we’re thrilled to have frontman Martin Fry on the cover of the new Electronic Sound to mark the occasion. We have a superb ABC seven-inch – pressed on gold vinyl to match Martin’s suit – to accompany the issue too. A glorious mix of intoxicating pop tunes, slick and funky rhythms, head-swirling strings and super-smart lyrics, ‘The Lexicon Of Love’ still sounds great to this day. No wonder the album entered the UK charts at Number One and stayed in the Top 100 for an entire year. Our cover feature tells the inside story of the record, with Martin Fry taking us back to ABC’s roots in the underground synth group Vice Versa. His memories of the early 1980s, a period he describes as “a whirlwind”, make for a fascinating article. It starts with him recalling the day he stuffed his gold suit down the toilet in a Tokyo hotel…
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