Latest Release
- OCT 29, 2024
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- Look of Love: The Very Best of ABC · 1982
- Alphabet City (Remastered) · 1987
- The Lexicon of Love · 1982
- The Lexicon of Love (Deluxe Edition) · 1982
- How to Be a Zillionaire · 1985
- The Lexicon of Love · 1981
- The Lexicon of Love · 1982
- How to Be a Zillionaire · 1985
- Look of Love: The Very Best of ABC · 1983
- Christmas… With Love - EP · 2016
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 center 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.
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Artist Playlists
- The lexicon of poptimism.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
Appears On
- Stephen Frimpong Amponsah & the Polyphonic Praise Chorale PPC
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