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Bronski Beat, the Glossary

Bronski Beat were a British synth-pop band formed in 1983 in London, England.^[1]

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"Heroes" (David Bowie song)

"Heroes" is a song by the English musician David Bowie from his 12th studio album of the same name.

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A-side and B-side

The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.

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Age of consent

The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts.

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All Living Fear

All Living Fear are an English gothic rock band from the South West of England.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Arnaud Rebotini

Arnaud Rebotini (born 12 April 1970) is a French musician.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bernard Rose (director)

Bernard Rose (born 1960 in London) is an English filmmaker, considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Artist

This article lists the winners and nominees for the ''Billboard'' Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Artist.

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Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Song

This article lists the winners and nominees for the ''Billboard'' Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Song.

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Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards are honors given out annually by Billboard, a publication covering the music business and a music popularity chart.

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Brit Award for British Group

The Brit Award for British Group is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Award for Song of the Year

The Brit Award for Song of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Awards 1985

The 1985 Brit Awards were the fifth edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom.

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Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Brixton Academy (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, previously known as Carling Academy Brixton, currently named O2 Academy Brixton as part of a sponsorship deal with the O2 brand) is a mid-sized concert venue located in South West London, in the Lambeth district of Brixton. Bronski Beat and Brixton Academy are 1983 establishments in England.

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Cha Cha Heels

"Cha Cha Heels" is a pop song recorded by Bronski Beat and Eartha Kitt, released in June 1989 from her album I'm Still Here as a tribute to drag actor and singer Divine.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Divine (performer)

Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), better known by the stage name Divine, was an American actor, singer, and drag queen.

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Donna Summer

Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Dutch Single Top 100

The Dutch Single Top 100 or Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by Dutch Charts.

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Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

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Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".

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Electric Ballroom

The Electric Ballroom is a 1,500-capacity performance venue (primarily for rock bands) and indoor market located at 184 Camden High Street in Camden Town, London, England.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts

Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts is a 1983 documentary film, produced by the London Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project, in which gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality.

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Hit That Perfect Beat

"Hit That Perfect Beat" is a song by British synth-pop band Bronski Beat from their second album, Truthdare Doubledare (1986).

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Hot Press

Hot Press is a monthly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977.

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Hundreds & Thousands

Hundreds & Thousands is a remix album by Bronski Beat released in 1985.

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I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by the American singer Donna Summer.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century.

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It Ain't Necessarily So

"It Ain't Necessarily So" is a popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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Jimmy Somerville

James William Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a British pop singer and songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Jimmy Somerville discography

Scottish recording artist Jimmy Somerville has entered the music industry as the frontman of the synth-pop act, known as Bronski Beat.

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John Leyton

John Dudley Leyton (born 17 February 1936) is an English retired actor and singer.

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Johnny Remember Me

"Johnny Remember Me" is a song which became a 1961 UK Singles Chart #1 hit single for John Leyton, backed by The Outlaws.

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Jonathan Hellyer

Jonathan Paul Hellyer known as Jonathan Hellyer (born 1967) is an English singer, theatre director and drag actor.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Larry Steinbachek

Larry Steinbachek (6 May 1960 – 7 December 2016) was an English-singer songwriter, director and composer best known for his time as part of Bronski Beat with Jimmy Somerville and Steve Bronski.

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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported the National Union of Mineworkers during the year-long strike of 1984–1985.

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Letter to Brezhnev

Letter to Brezhnev is a 1985 British romantic comedy film about working-class life in Liverpool, written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard.

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London Recordings

London Recordings (or London Records and London Music Stream) is a British record label that marketed records in the United States, Canada, and Latin America for Decca Records from 1947 to 1980 before becoming semi-independent.

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Love to Love You Baby (song)

"Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her second studio album, Love to Love You Baby (1975).

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Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals.

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Manoush

Manoush (born 1973) is a French actress and singer.

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Marc Almond

Peter Mark "Marc" Almond (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer best known from the synth-pop/new wave duo Soft Cell and for his distinctive soulful voice and androgynous image.

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Medley (music)

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another, sometimes overlapping.

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Michael Laub

Michael Laub (born 1953, in Belgium) is an avant-garde stage director, contemporary dance choreographer and video artist.

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Mike Thorne

Mike Thorne (born 25 January 1948) is an English record producer, arranger, composer, engineer, and musician.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris. Bronski Beat and New Order (band) are English synth-pop groups.

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NME Awards

The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine NME (New Musical Express).

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Parting Glances

Parting Glances is a 1986 American drama film.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Prejudice

Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership.

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Pride (2014 film)

Pride is a 2014 historical comedy-drama film written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus.

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Record chart

A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote.

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Remix

A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.

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Richard Coles

Richard Keith Robert Coles (born 26 March 1962) is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest.

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Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall (née Porter; born 21 October 1959) is a Scottish musician who formed Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson in 1981.

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Smalltown Boy

"Smalltown Boy" is the debut single by the British synth-pop band Bronski Beat, released in May 1984.

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Smash Hits Poll Winners Party

The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was a British awards ceremony which ran from 1979 to 1987 as the Smash Hits Readers' Poll, then on television from 1988 to 2005.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as Southend, is a coastal city and unitary authority area with borough status in south-eastern Essex, England.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Steve Bronski

Steven William Forrest (7 February 1960 – 7 December 2021) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his time as a member of synth-pop band Bronski Beat, with Jimmy Somerville and Larry Steinbachek.

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Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade were a Scottish pop duo formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" from 1985, and their flamboyant clothing with bows and polka-dots.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).

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The Age of Consent (album)

The Age of Consent is the debut album by synth-pop band Bronski Beat (Steve Bronski, Larry Steinbachek and Jimmy Somerville), released on London Records in October 1984.

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The Communards

The Communards were a British synth-pop duo formed in London in 1985. Bronski Beat and The Communards are British disco groups, British hi-NRG groups, dance-pop groups, English synth-pop groups, LGBT-themed musical groups and London Records artists.

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Tight Fit

Tight Fit are an English pop group who had several hits in the early 1980s, including a UK No.1 for three weeks with their cover version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1982.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Truthdare Doubledare

Truthdare Doubledare is the second album (released in 1986 on MCA Records) by the British dance band Bronski Beat.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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