Double Or Nothing? It's The Thompson Twins
Question: “So do you get a thrill out of hearing your records on the radio?” Answer: “Thrill? We get a check!” Alannah: “Thomas!” And so it goes with the Thompson Twins, that “lyrics by Alannah, music by Tom” combo. The “Hold Me Now” hitmakers.
Double Or Nothing? It's The Thompson Twins
J. Kordosh
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Question: “So do you get a thrill out of hearing your records on the radio?”
Answer: “Thrill? We get a check!”
Alannah: “Thomas!”
And so it goes with the Thompson Twins, that “lyrics by Alannah, music by Tom” combo. The “Hold Me Now” hitmakers. The former rainbow people’s trio, now reduced to a loving couple since Joe Leeway, the black guy, split.
They’re really something.
With their latest album, Close To The Bone, the Twins have continued a tradition—Tom Bailey calls it “the Thompson Twins rhythm groove sort of thing,” and who can argue with that?—but they’ve also entered new turf. It is their first album without Joe, but (more importantly) it’s also the follow-up to Here’s To Future Days, which wasn’t a big smash hit or anything. Alannah—she of the hair and the several opinions—explains a bit about that last album: