The american dream

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For Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, recording 1985’s Crush was an intens

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Classic Pop Magazine

09 October, 2025

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The accessibility, affordability and portability of synthesizers in the late 70s had a profound effect on popular music, particularly in the UK, where the likes of Ultravox!, Gary Numan and OMD reshap

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Live and “on fire”.

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Appetite for destruction

hen Soft Cell were art students at Leeds Polytechnic, Marc Almond wrote a song in the vein of Ziggy Stardust about a fictional band breaking up. Four years later, when Soft Cell had been informed by t

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“the battlefield is littered with the corpses of british bands who tried to make it in america and then lost their identity.

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B