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Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist , best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins . Career
Alannah Currie (left) and Joe Leeway (right), performing in 1984 Bailey commented on the band's reduction to a trio in a 1983 interview: "When we reformed the band, we were making a statement. We weren't going to be a rock 'n' roll band, we weren't going to have a guitar.
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Bailey was married to Thompson Twins member Alannah Currie from 1991 to 2003. They have two children. As of 2014, Bailey lived in France with his second wife, artist Lauren Drescher. [17] He has homes in New Zealand, France, and London. [18] Bailey is a vegan and has said he does not drink alcohol or use recreational drugs. [18]
Babble was established in 1992 when Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie decided to drop the Thompson Twins name and begin recording new music under the name Babble. The decision to adopt a new name stemmed from the duo's aspirations of exploring different musical ideas and recording more experimental music.
"King For A Day" is a 1985 song by the British band the Thompson Twins.It was released as the third single from the band's fifth album Here's to Future Days.. It was written by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway.
At that time in 1982, the Thompson Twins' membership changed radically. They had been at the time of Set an ever-changing group of musicians, featuring seven members; band leader Tom Bailey then reduced the band to a trio by firing everybody except Alannah Currie and Leeway. Leeway's main role in the new line-up was to assist in writing the ...
"Take Me Away" originated with Currie, who had the idea for the song when she and Bailey were part of the audience at Glastonbury Festival. Bailey told Hits in 1994, "Alannah actually wrote the song at Glastonbury. We were there in a massive crowd of people and she wrote it gazing over a hill looking at the crowd."