Visage – 12” Singles

I’m not going to waffle on here about two banging Visage 12” singles as the debut album is coming to the blog in the next month or so (I haven’t decided yet, this is kinda like a trial to gauge interest). If there was ever a band that made hit after hit of electronic music, it has to be Visage. Members coming from the emerging New Romantic movement based around the BLITZ Club in London’s Soho district, with Midge Ure and Rusty Egan who were working with ex-Pistol Glen Matlock in The Rich Kids, Billy Currie on keyboards from Ultravox  and three members of Magazine, John McGeoch (guitar), Dave Formula (keyboards) and Barry Adamson (bass). Stir this talent with Steve Strange fronting the band and knob twiddler extraordinaire Martin Rushant in the studio, the results can only be brilliant. Er, no! Debut single “Tar” was released on Radar Records in September 1979, no one was interested. David Bowie however popped along to BLITZ Club in mid-1980 to ask if Steven and a couple of other regulars would appear in his video for Ashes To Ashes, which helped to propel the New Romantic movement into the mainstream. November 1980 and Visage’s second single “Fade To Grey” was released finally breaking into the UK top twenty early in 1981. 

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Visage; Fade To Grey 12”

A.     Fade To Grey

B.     The Steps

Visage; Visage 12”

A.     Visage (Dance Mix)

B.     Second Steps