The Agony & THE ABC
Can this be the look of love? ABC in 1985 look more like escapees from a Hanna-Barbera convention. Quite a change from the glamorous gold lame get-up they adopted for the debut elpee, which netted them two Top 20 singles and (wow!) a gold album.
The Agony & THE ABC
Jim Farber
Can this be the look of love? ABC in 1985 look more like escapees from a Hanna-Barbera convention. Quite a change from the glamorous gold lame get-up they adopted for the debut elpee, which netted them two Top 20 singles and (wow!) a gold album. These days there are only two original ABCs left: a) Martin Fry, and b) Mark White. The two newies are David Warritu, an unofficial midget, and Eden, a female. David was a go-go dancer at an obnoxious club called the Pyramid, located in New York’s architectural haircut capital, the East Village. “When we met him he was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood,” Martin explains in the conference room of PolyGram’s New York headquarters. “He gave me a fortune cookie and we said, ‘let us take you away from all this.’”
Eden, the female, they knew from their hometown—Sheffield, England. When asked what the two new members play, Martin shrugs, “not much really.” Then their purpose is mainly—uh—visual? “Yes,” answers Mark. “Somebody said the new band was like a cross between the Banana Splits and Afrika Bambaataa. That suits me fine.”