ABC's Martin Fry regrets not capitalising on early success
ABC’s Martin Fry is a surprise. On record, he is the archetypal smoothie, louche and debonair. His hits, such as ‘The Look Of Love’ and ‘Shoot That Poison Arrow’, hark back to the golden age of Motown by way of Roxy Music and Chic.
In person he speaks in the broad tones of his native Stockport and is no nonsense in that distinctive North of England way. It is a leap of the imagination to picture him posing in a gold lamé suit as he did when ABC released their iconic 1982 album The Lexicon Of Love.
