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Stephen Singleton
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Birth name
| Stephen Barry Singleton
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Born
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1959-04-17
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17 April 1959
(age 65)
Sheffield
, England
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Genres
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Occupation(s)
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Instrument(s)
| Saxophone , Guitar , Keyboards . Synthesiser programming
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Years active
| 1977?present
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Musical artist
Stephen Barry Singleton
(born 17 April 1959) is an English musician, currently residing in
Sheffield
, England. He was the saxophonist in the
pop
band
ABC
(which he left in 1984), starring in the 1983 short film
Mantrap
.
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According to an interview Singleton did for the documentary
Made in Sheffield
, he was friends with
Def Leppard
's lead vocalist
Joe Elliott
when the two were young children. Along with
Mark White
and David Sydenham, he founded the
electronic
band
Vice Versa
in 1977. He also produced several issues of
Steve's Papers
, a Sheffield punk fanzine.
[2]
In the early 1990s, Singleton was a member of the band Bleep & Booster, who released an album on
London Records
and produced some remixes for
East 17
. Singleton also produced records by Treebound Story (featuring a young
Richard Hawley
) The Screaming Trees album A Fracture In Time and Libitina.
Singleton declined to participate in
VH1
's
Bands Reunited
in 2004, when attempts were made to reform ABC for a one-off performance. Only two members, Martin Fry and David Palmer, reunited and performed.
In 2015, Stephen Singleton and Mark White reformed
Vice Versa
.
Discography
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Year
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Artist
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Album title
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Label
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1980
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Vice Versa
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8 Aspects Of
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Neutron
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1982
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ABC
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The Lexicon of Love
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Neutron
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1983
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ABC
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Beauty Stab
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Neutron
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1994
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Bleep & Booster
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The World Of
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London
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2005
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Stephen Singleton
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Stephen Singleton
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White label
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2014
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Vice Versa
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Electrogenesis 1978?1980
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VOD
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External links
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Singles
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