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!