| Name |
Abc |
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| Naionality |
English |
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| Famous for |
Singing |
Abc are an English New Romantic band that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008. ABC has its roots in the band Vice Versa. Vice Versa was formed in 1977 in Sheffield by Stephen Singleton, Mark White and David Sydenham. They founded their own label, Neutron Records, releasing the EP Music 4. They had similarities to The Human League, whom they supported in 1978.
Martin Fry, who wrote the fanzine Modern Drugs, interviewed the band; shortly afterwards, they asked him to join as synthesizer player. Fry accepted. Within a short time, the band evolved into ABC, with Fry taking over on lead vocals. In 1990, the band released a greatest hits compilation album, Absolutely. This covered all of ABC's albums up until 1990 and featured all of their singles. The compilation made the UK Top 10. A video package featuring promos was also released. One new song, "The Look of Love '90", was released to promote the package. The group moved to the EMI label (and MCA in North America), where they recorded the 1991 LP Abracadabra. "Love Conquers All", the first single, barely placed in the UK chart, though the Italian production team Black Box provided remixes of "Say It" which appeared in the US dance charts.
Martin Fry also collaborated with M People in 1991 on their first album, Northern Soul, recording the vocals for the song 'Life'. However, when the Northern Soul album was re-released in 1992, and again in 1995, this track was omitted. In 2009 ABC toured the US as the headliner of the 2009 'Regeneration Tour',[5] which also featured Terri Nunn of Berlin, Wang Chung, and the Cutting Crew. In June, July and August 2011, ABC performed at a few locations around the UK as well as Las Vegas, Nevada.
October 2011 saw ABC performing dates in Melbourne, Australia, their first time there for many years. On July 19, 2012 Martin Fry was made an honorary Doctor of Music at the University of Sheffield for his contribution of more than thirty years to music. The following day his daughter Nancy received her degree from the Department of Sociological Studies from the same University.
