Visage

Poster boys for the New Romantic movement until Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran came along, took their ball and ran off with it, Steve Strange's Visage had more of a career than most observers imagine. While their December 1980 single Fade To Grey was (and remains) a landmark single for the scene - and for the whole synth pop movement in general - the band knocked out five more Top 40 singles before the end of 1982.

The line-up included (at various times) Midge Ure, Ultravox keyboard player Billy Currie, and no fewer than three Magazine alumni (bass player Barry Adamson, guitarist John McGeoch and keyboardist Dave Formula).