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THE DREAM ACADEMY Ironically, The Dream Academy were from the city of London, despite having a worldwide hit with "Life in a Northern Town." Their three studio albums featured a dream-team line-up of producers and players, including David Gilmour, Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut (Fleetwood Mac's producer), Patrick Leonard (Madonna's producer), Paul Carrack, Larry Fast (Synergy) & movie music maestro Hans Zimmer, amongst others. Truly a Dream Academy of Music.
STEPHEN 'TIN TIN' DUFFY The adventures of Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy, a former member of Duran Duran. Talking of nicknames, David Brent's nickname in The Office was 'Bluto' (the bearded, bloated villain from Popeye), although the office staff wouldn't dare call him that to his face. Or would they?
DURAN DURAN Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, John Taylor & Roger Taylor - the Notorious Wild Boys of Synth-Pop. They were the future once, now they're Future Past, but Duran Duran still remain one of the most enduring (and endearing?) bands of the New Romantic era on Planet Earth.
EIGHTH WONDER A Synth-Pop band led by four times married and divorced Patsy Kensit (England's answer to Madonna?) who's probably best-known as Mel Gibson's love interest in Lethal Weapon 2, although that relationship didn't last either.
ENO Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, better-known to us all simply as Eno - for keeping your whites whiter than white. Oh no, that's Omo, not Eno. Anyway, enough of this airy-Fairy nonsense! If I may be so Bold, why not tune in your Ariel for Brian's three electronica albums listed below, which should hopefully Tide you over whilst you Surf the internet.
DURAN DURAN Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, John Taylor & Roger Taylor - the Notorious Wild Boys of Synth-Pop. They were the future once, now they're Future Past, but Duran Duran still remain one of the most enduring (and endearing?) bands of the New Romantic era on Planet Earth.
^ Another Green World is my favourite Brian Eno album too, mainly because it includes the theme to BBC 2's Arena arts programme.
Anyway, I've now removed Brian Eno from the Synth-Pop list, so pretend he was never here. That was my biggest blunder since listing The Cure as a Synth-Pop band.
ERASURE What a gay day for listening to Erasure, a duo consisting of singer Andy Bell and Synth-Pop legend Vince Clarke (previously of Depeche Mode & Yazoo), where it's a case of nice songs, shame about their tacky videos.
EURYTHMICS Who's That Girl? It's Scottish Diva Annie Lennox and Right by Her Side is Dave Stewart (not the Canterbury Scene guy), who were previously known as The Tourists before settling down to life as the Eurythmics (named after a French pedagogical system of dance mime!), after which a string of non-stop hits followed throughout the 1980's. These are the things which Sweet Dreams of pop stardom are made of! The Eurythmics split up in 1990 when Dave became a Thorn in Annie's side, but It's Alright, because they made a comeback album nine years later when they called it Peace between them. We all know the Eurythmics primarily as a Synth-Pop duo, but somewhat bizarrely, they began life briefly as a Krautrock duo for their first album "In the Garden" (now something of a rarity), recorded in Cologne with legendary German producer Conny Plank and ably assisted by Holger Czukay of Can. Would I Lie to You?
FAD GADGET The stage name of Frank Tovey (1956-2002), an avant-garde Synth-Pop singer whose darkly humorous lyrics of bleak social commentary covers subjects as diverse as industrialisation, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization, making Gary Numan seem like the life and soul of the party by comparison.
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