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Track: Tower Of London
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 - (How To Be A...) Millionaire!
Year: 1985
Genres: Electronic
Styles: Synth-pop

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LYRICS

Let me take you to Trafalgar Square
Let me take you there
Every street's a fashion catwalk
Everyone's debonair
Let me take you to Piccadilly
Guess it leads somewhere

Tower over centuries, tower over London
Tower up and frankly I'm amazed
What's done cannot be undone, not here not in London
What's done can never be erased

So, tower up! - It's those little things
Make life interesting- Tower of London!
Tower up! - wasting time
Your's and mine - Tower of London!
Hip London! Hip London!

Let me take you to St.James's square
Let me groove you there
Diplomats get target practice
In the open air
Psychobillies scream blue murder
Then they hit Mayfair

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So, tower up! - It's those little things
Make life interesting- Tower of London!
Tower up! - wasting time
Precious time - Tower of London!
Tower up! I'll meet you there
I'll be there - Tower of London
New York! - don't make me laugh
I've seen photographs - Tower of London...