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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. We were going to move on.
"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.
Close to the Bone is the sixth studio album by the British pop group Thompson Twins, released on 6 April 1987 by Arista Records.Only the duo of Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie remained; this was the first album the group made without Joe Leeway.
Alannah Currie – lyrics, marimba, backing vocals, acoustic drums, percussion, tuned percussion; Joe Leeway – backing vocals, congas, percussion; 1984 Versions. Produced by Alex Sadkin and Tom Bailey; Remixed by Alex Sadkin, Tom Bailey, and John 'Tokes' Potoker (U.S. Re-mix) Sleeve Designs – Satori; Art Direction – Alannah Currie and ...
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.
In our field, great music is a hit record." The song became the Thompson Twins' biggest hit in America, [7] [8] but at the same time it pressured the band to produce top-selling music, even if they were not completely comfortable with that, as Alannah Currie stated in an interview with David Oriard of The Spokesman-Review: [9]
"Come Inside" is a song by British pop group Thompson Twins, released in 1991 as the lead single from their eighth studio album Queer. It was written and produced by Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey.