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The band began playing as Fashion Music in Birmingham in 1978, consisted of John Mulligan on bass and synthesizer, Dik Davis on drums, and Al James, later known as Luke Sky, as a singer and guitarist.
emerged within the punk movement, but predisposed to become one of the pioneers of new wave, the band released "Perfect Product" his debut album in 1979.
However, in such a short time the first stage of the band was about to end when Luke Sky left the band after they released the single "Silver Blades" in 1980.
The band and its leader would take opposite paths, reaching the first to reach the top of the charts, with "Fabrique" ranking at position 10, and second, to workas diverse as train washer, barman, and street singer. However, the band would disband shortly after, until finally, last year, began to talk of a possible meeting of Fashion.
Although it was only Luke Sky decided to return under the name of its former glory, this is not a minor detail, since for many the band spent their best time with Luke as his lead singer.
But, what has this meeting? Hard, or basically impossible, you can tick this return as an opportunist and that copies of his new album "Stairway To Nowhere" Luke are sold through its website:
http://www.fashionlukesky.com/Home_Page . html
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The primera song that opens the album "Shining Son" is an interesting song, repetitive and certainly catchy, and very different from "Beauty Is Mine", a kind of reggae dark between the English and Argentines Specials Sumo. In its third track, "Strength" Luke returns to his early punk days, while "Turning Left at Greenland" is a futuristic song with a difference unless the CD makes clear, could not be noticed: it is the first of three tracks on the album, which is a drummer, Vuk Pavlovic.
And is that throughout the album, Luke is responsible for the first time, in addition to voice and guitar, synthesizer, bass and drums. A Prince of the New Wave.
"Slow Radiation" is another reggae album ended with a tr