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ABC is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Roxy Music, Sex Pistols, The Chain Gang of 1974, The Buggles and Wang Chung. Those roots explain a lot about how ABC arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thompson Twins, Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, Fine Young Cannibals and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mansun, Electronic, M People, Cathy Dennis and Anne Dudley, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around ABC, reaching back through Roxy Music and forward to Mansun. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
ABC are an English pop band which formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1980, evolving from the earlier electronic band Vice Versa. Associated with the new pop movement of the early 1980s, ABC blended synth-pop with disco and rock influences. The band achieved mainstream success with their debut album, The Lexicon of Love (1982), which reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and featured the hit singles "Tears Are Not Enough", "Poison Arrow", "All of My Heart" and "The Look of Love".
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ABC connections
ABC grew out of Roxy Music, Sex Pistols, The Chain Gang of 1974 and The Buggles, shares an orbit with Thompson Twins, Ultravox, Spandau Ballet and Fine Young Cannibals, went on to shape Mansun, Electronic, M People and Cathy Dennis. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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