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Creem Profiles

THOMPSON TWINS

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

June 1, 1984

HOME: The Gap.

AGE: They lie.

PROFESSION: Sisters of mercy.

HOBBIES: Living in Europe, trying to stop the rain, playing detectives, bouncing, making believe another fantasy, reading comic strips, creating silly haircuts.

LAST BOOK READ: Shave Me Now! by Yul Brynner.

QUOTE: “Good gosh!”

PROFILE: Tom Bailey got together with Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie (plus a few others long since departed) in their native Yorkshire, took their name from a popular British comic strip, contrived some of the most hideous haircuts in the history of Western popular music, and came up with some of the bounciest synth-pop music to come out of the whole invasion.

BEER: Boy Howdy!

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