ABC. "THE LEXICON OF LOVE" VERTIGO UK 1983 LP. ORIG NM COND.
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ABC ?– The Lexicon Of Love Label: Vertigo ?– 6359 099 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Germany Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Soul, Synth-pop, Disco Tracklist A1 Show Me 4:02 A2 Poison Arrow Bass – Mark Lickley 3:23 A3 Many Happy Returns 3:58 A4 Tears Are Not Enough Bass – Mark Lickley Trombone – Andy Gray (2) 3:28 A5 Valentine's Day 3:40 B1 The Look Of Love (Part One) Bass – Mark Lickley 3:28 B2 Date Stamp 3:51 B3 All Of My Heart 5:17 B4 4 Ever 2 Gether 5:30 B5 The Look Of Love (Part Four) Bass – Mark Lickley 1:00 Companies, etc. Record Company – Phonogram GmbH Phonographic Copyright (p) – Phonogram Ltd. Copyright (c) – Phonogram Ltd. Pressed By – PRS Hannover Printed By – PRS Hannover Published By – Virgin Music (Publishing) Ltd. Published By – Chappell Music Ltd. Mixed At – Sarm Studios Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover Credits Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Stephen Singleton Bass – Brad Lang Design – Visible Ink Drums, Percussion – David Palmer Engineer – Gary Langan Guitar, Keyboards – Mark White Harp – Gaynor Sadler Keyboards, Orchestrated By – Anne Dudley Percussion [Additional] – Louis Jardin* Photography By – Gered Mankowitz Producer – Trevor Horn Programmed By [Fairlight] – J.J. Jeczalik Trumpet – Kim Wear Vocals – Martin Fry Vocals [Additional] – Tessa Webb* Written-By – ABC, Anne Dudley (tracks: A4, B4) Notes ? 1981/1982 Phonogram Ltd.
Original sound recording made by Phonogram Ltd. Computer mix - Sarm Studios London, 1982. All titles published by: Virgin Music Publ. Ltd. except: "4 Ever 2 Gether" by: Virgin Music Publ. Ltd./Chappell Music Ltd.
Made in West Germany [labels] Printed in West Germany [back sleeve]
PRS Hannover embossed stamp on back sleeve, lower left side.
Herausgeber: Phonogram GmbH Hamburg [logo] [back sleeve]
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann [-] ABC's debut album combined the talents of the Sheffield, U.K.-based band, particularly lead singer Martin Fry, a fashion plate of a frontman with a Bryan Ferry fixation, and the inventive production style of former Buggles member Trevor Horn and his team of musicians, several of whom would go on to form the Art of Noise. Horn created dense tracks that merged synthesizer sounds, prominent beats, and swaths of strings and horns, their orchestrations courtesy of Anne Dudley, who would follow her work with the Art of Noise by becoming a prominent film composer, and who here underscored Fry's stylized romantic lyrics and dramatic, if affected, singing. The production style was dense and noisy, but frequently beautiful, and the group's emotional songs gave it a depth and coherence later Horn works, such as those of Yes ("Owner of a Lonely Heart") and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, would lack. (You can hear Horn trying out the latter band's style in "Date Stamp.") Fry and company used the sound to create moving dancefloor epics like "Many Happy Returns," which, like most of the album's tracks, deserved to be a hit single. (In the U.K., four were: "Tears Are Not Enough," "Poison Arrow," "The Look of Love," and "All of My Heart," the last three making the Top Ten; in the U.S., "The Look of Love" and "Poison Arrow" charted Top 40.) ABC, which began fragmenting almost immediately, never equaled its gold-selling first LP commercially or artistically, despite some worthy later songs.
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