Artist's albums
Arista Heritage Series: Thompson Twins
1999 · album
Love, Lies and Other Strange Things: Greatest Hits
1996 · compilation
Singles Collection
1996 · compilation
The Collection
1993 · album
Groove On
1992 · EP
Play With Me (Jane)
1992 · EP
Play With Me (Jane) / The Saint
1992 · EP
The Saint
1992 · EP
Queer
1991 · album
Come Inside
1991 · single
Come Inside / The Saint
1991 · EP
Big Trash
1989 · album
Bombers In the Sky
1989 · single
Sugar Daddy
1989 · EP
The Best of Thompson Twins / Greatest Mixes
1988 · compilation
Close to the Bone
1987 · album
Here's to Future Days
1985 · album
Into the Gap
1984 · album
Into the Gap (Deluxe Edition)
1984 · album
Quick Step and Side Kick (Deluxe Edition)
1983 · album
Hold Me Now (Metro Boomin Remix)
2018 · single
Box
2010 · album
Box
2010 · album
Dance Vault Remixes
2006 · album
The Greatest Hits
2003 · compilation
Platinum & Gold Collection
2003 · compilation
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Biography
At their peak in the mid-80s, Thompson Twins were one of the UK’s biggest synth-pop provocateurs, filling stadiums and playing Live Aid with hits like Hold Me Now and Doctor! Doctor! The trio of Tom Bailey, Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie saw themselves as much a production company as a band, their experimentalism coming from years in London’s squat scene. Universal themes hid more subversive content. Under Bailey’s hooky melodies, Currie’s lyrics challenged the politics of love and played with darker themes. The aesthetic spliced constructivism, surrealism, Dadaism, and gender-mashup fashion, winning many copycats. Bailey formed the band in ’77, with Pete Dodd, John Roog, and Chris Bell, releasing two albums, A Product Of and Set, the latter featuring Leeway and Currie, before evolving into the iconic trio. Quick Step & Side Kick, recorded in ’83 in the Bahamas with producer Alex Sadkin included hits Lies, Love on Your Side and If You Were Here. Videos featured on MTV and remixes tore up dance floors in New York and LA. In '84 Hold Me Now from Into The Gap was their biggest US hit followed by Doctor Doctor and Sister of Mercy. Here's To Future Days (’85) produced by Nile Rodgers spawned hits Lay Your Hands On Me and King for a Day. After Leeway left, they released Close to the Bone (’87), Big Trash (’89) and Queer ('91), before forming trip-hop outfit Babble, releasing The Stone (’94) and Ether (’96). Bailey continues as Tom Bailey and International Observer. -Jenny Valentish