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ABC  Viva Love

...dök upp i månadsskiftet april/maj i år och är singelsläpp från albumet The Lexicon Of Love II som kom cirka en månad senare. Den ende återstående medlemmen i ABC, Martin Fry, har tillsammans med legenden Anne Dudley gjort en uppföljare på det klassiska albumet The Lexicon Of Love från 1982. Från en artikel som publicerats i engelsk press:

Now, 34 years since the release of Lexicon, Fry is delivering a sequel to his great opening gambit. The Lexicon of Love II examines affairs of the heart from the perspective of an older, maybe wiser, but no less romantic individual. Horn is not on board but Dudley is, which could be preferable given that her rich, considered arrangements were as essential to the original Lexicon as Fry’s own voice. If the record is not the game-changer that the original was, the same values of style and scale are in play. There is the declamatory opening single Viva Love, there are callbacks to Poison Arrow (“I care enough to know I could never leave you”) and, naturally, there is an orchestral reprise at the end.
 

Appropriately the cover of Lexicon II shows Fry, ABC’s frontman and now sole member, watching two young models from the wings of a theatre. They represent Fry’s younger self and the sort of unattainable, irresistible woman that he used to pursue in song. If you’re going to revisit one of the few British albums truly deserving of the term classic, this is the way to do it.
 
ABC har varit på bloggtapeten mången gång förr. Se till exempel ABC - 30 och 25 år. Och det tillhör näst intill bloggens ABC att så här på fredagseftermiddagen tillönska dess följare en trevlig helg! Häpp!