Chart-topping 80s band ABC celebrate 40th anniversary of The Lexicon of Love album with hometown show in Sheffield

Eighties pop stars ABC will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album The Lexicon of Love on a ten-date tour including their Sheffield hometown.
By Gay Bolton
Published 6th Nov 2021, 05:30 GMT
Updated 26th Jan 2022, 08:26 GMT
Martin Fry, singer-songwriter, and his band ABC will be performing all the tracks from their chart-topping album The Lexicon of Love in Sheffield City Hall on June 21, 2022.Martin Fry, singer-songwriter, and his band ABC will be performing all the tracks from their chart-topping album The Lexicon of Love in Sheffield City Hall on June 21, 2022.
Martin Fry, singer-songwriter, and his band ABC will be performing all the tracks from their chart-topping album The Lexicon of Love in Sheffield City Hall on June 21, 2022.

The band have lined up a date at Sheffield City Hall on June 21, 2022 which will be exactly four decades to the day that they launched their iconic album.

They will play Lexicon of Love in full during this tour which will see ABC returning to the Royal Albert Hall where their first orchestrated show won the hearts of critics and fans alike.

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The Lexicon Of Love went straight to number one upon release and sold over a million records. Fusing dance floor finesse with a post-punk attitude, the album spawned timeless tracks such as Poison Arrow, The Look Of Love, Tears Are Not Enough and All Of My Heart.

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    ABC fronted by songwriter Martin Fry were formed in Sheffield in the 1980s and to date have released nine studio albums: The Lexicon of Love (1982), Beauty Stab (1983), How To Be A Zillionaire (1985), Alphabet City (1987), Up (1989), Abracadabra (1991), Skyscraping (1997) and Traffic (2008).

    A mere 36 years since the release of their landmark debut album ABC returned with their resounding triumph The Lexicon Of Love II which immediately entered into the top five.

    ABC will be joined by the Southbank Sinfonia and longtime collaborator Anne Dudley who will conduct the evening.

    Tickets priced from £39.60 are on sale at www.gigsandtours.com and from £40.40 at www.ticketmaster.co.uk

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