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Thompson Twins is tagged as: 80s, new wave, pop, synth pop, synthpop

Thompson Twins were an English new wave band. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the U.S. and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson from Hergé’s comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.
In 1977, the original Thompson Twins lineup consisted of Tom Bailey (born January 18, 1956, in Halifax, Yorkshire) on bass and vocals, Pete Dodd on guitar and vocals, John Roog on guitar, and Jon Podgorski (known as “Pod”) on drums. Dodd and Roog first met when they were both 13 years old.
After moving to London but having so little money, they lived as squatters in Lillieshall Road, London. Future Thompson Twins’ member, Alannah Currie, lived in another squat in the same street — which is how she met Bailey. It was in this ramshackle and run-down house that they found an illegal way of “borrowing” electricity from the house next door. Bailey described themselves (laughingly) as “spongers” (meaning parasites) back then, as they were living on very little, and scavenging everything they could lay their hands on. He even said that the only instru...
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Top 10 Thompson Twins Songs
Hold Me Now
Doctor! Doctor!
Love On Your Side
If You Were Here
Lay Your Hands On Me
In The Name Of Love
Lies
King For A Day
You Take Me Up
Sister Of Mercy
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Top 10 Thompson Twins Albums
Into The Gap
Side Kicks
Greatest Hits
The Collection
Here's to Future Days
The Best of Thompson Twins - Greatest Mixes
The Greatest Hits
Dance Vault Remixes
Platinum & Gold Collection
Singles Collection
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