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• 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.

• Fast Facts

  1. Origin: Halifax, England
  2. Years active: 1977-1993
  3. No one in the group was related and the "Twins" were actually a trio when they hit big
  4. Classic lineup: Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, Joe Leeway
  5. Record labels: Arista Records, Warner Bros. Records, Dirty Discs, Latent Records, Tee Records, Red Eye Records
  6. 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)
  7. Bailey and Currie were married in 1991 and divorced in 2003
  8. Into the Gap sold five million copies worldwide
  9. Named after the characters Thomson and Thompson from the comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.

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