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Track: Ocean Blue
Artist: ABC
Album: How To Be A Zillionaire

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Name: ABC
Spotify Genres: new wave, synthpop
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ABC is a British pop band from Sheffield, UK, formed in 1980, best known for songs like The Look of Love and When Smokey Sings in the 1980s. Since 1991, ABC has been the solo project of singer and founder Martin Fry, who works with a variety of musicians. White and Singleton started out as [a=Vice Versa (4)], who released an EP "[Link]" in 1979 and contributed the track "Genetic Warfare" to a compilation, "[Link]" before adding Fry to the lineup and mutating into ABC. During the late '70s, Fry ran his own fanzine, Modern Drugs, while he attended Sheffield University. ABC formed in 1980, after Fry interviewed Vice Versa members Mark White (guitar) and Stephen Singleton (saxophone) for his fanzine. The two musicians asked Fry to join their band as a vocalist, and he soon became part of the group; the lineup also featured drummer David Robinson and bassist Mark Lickley. Soon, Fry had taken control of the electronic band, he recruited [a=Trevor Horn] as producer to steer them in a more pop-oriented direction and renamed the group ABC. By the fall of 1981, the band had signed a record contract with Phonogram Records, which agreed to distribute ABC's own label, Neutron. ABC released their first single, "Tears Are Not Enough," in November; it peaked at number 19 on the U.K. charts.

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Release: ABC - Ocean Blue
Year: 1986
Genres: Electronic
Styles: Synth-pop

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LYRICS

Well you took me home
And you took me back
But deep down inside
The feeling just died and I
Couldn't see why
From indigo to royal blue
I travel far but no one will do
Anytime, anyplace
Every shape every face
Brings memories of you

Chorus:
Blue to be blue
To be blue
Ocean blue
Blue to be blue
To be blue
Ocean blue - ocean blue

Fair weather friends might drift away
When summer ends and skies burn grey
So I walk to the ocean
Pilot these shores
Just thinking of you

It's time we kissed the clouds goodbye
From now on it's strictly blue sky
Come rain and shine
The outlook is still fine
I'm thinking of you

(chorus)
Blue to be blue
To be blue
Ocean blue, ocean blue (x2)

Ocean blue, ocean blue
Ocean blue, ocean ocean
Ocean, ocean

(chorus)

I stand at the head of the queue
There's mutiny's every crew
Wishin' and wonderin' 'bout you
Ocean blue