Thompson Twins

Categories: Entertainment | Music | Pop Music | Rock
    • Origin: Halifax, England
    • Years active: 1977-1993
    • No one in the group was related and the "Twins" were actually a trio when they hit big
    • Classic lineup: Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, Joe Leeway
    • Record labels: Arista Records, Warner Bros. Records, Dirty Discs, Latent Records, Tee Records, Red Eye Records
    • Top 10 Billboard hits: "Hold Me Now" (No. 3), "Doctor! Doctor!" (No. 11), "Lay Your Hands On Me" (No. 6), "King for a Day" (No. 11)
    • Bailey and Currie were married in 1991 and divorced in 2003
    • Into the Gap sold five million copies worldwide
    • Named after the characters Thomson and Thompson from the comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.
  • Thompson Twins were an English Synth-pop group that had success in the mid-1980s with their 1984 album Into the Gap, which cracked the Billboard top ten in America.

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