ABC

The fans packed the Royal Concert Hall to capacity on Tuesday night, to energetically cheer on vocalist Martin Fry and to joyfully relive some of ABC’s best songs.

When ABC released their debut album The Lexicon of Love in 1982, the record went on to become a pop music classic that epitomised the New Romantic period in popular music.

Let's Rock is a festival held during the summer months throughout the UK in various cities. It is a very popular festival, with many thousands of people in the crowd - attracting many of the big names to play.

Fry is in jocular form at a symphonic outing for his 1982 hit The Lexicon of Love.

The story of Sheffield’s ABC encompasses some of the most dizzying highs and lows in British music. When Martin Fry and his colleagues in post-punk synth experimenters Vice Versa reinvented themselves as a slick funk band with designs on the charts, they couldn’t initially have expected quite how successful t

Here was the upside of Thatcher’s Britain – the free market aspiration life in Technicolor – a reaction to the acute chill of the late Seventies.

Fresh from the Hot Press chatroom Fry walked on stage with a smile on his lips staring into the afternoon sun.