Stephen Singleton

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Stephen Singleton
Stephen Singleton (Vice Versa).jpg
Background information
Birth nameStephen Barry Singleton
Born (1959-04-17) 17 April 1959 (age 65)
Sheffield, England
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
Instruments
  • Saxophone
  • guitar
  • keyboards
  • synthesizers
Years active1977–present

Stephen Barry Singleton (born 17 April 1959) is an English musician. He was the saxophonist in the pop band ABC (which he left in 1984), starring in the 1983 short film Mantrap. [1]

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According to an interview Singleton did for the documentary Made in Sheffield , he was friends with Def Leppard's lead vocalist Joe Elliott when the two were young children. Along with Mark White and David Sydenham, he founded the electronic band Vice Versa in 1977. He also produced several issues of Steve's Papers, a Sheffield punk fanzine. [2]

In the early 1990s, Singleton was a member of the band Bleep & Booster, who released an album on London Records and produced some remixes for East 17. Singleton also produced records by Treebound Story (featuring a young Richard Hawley) The Screaming Trees album A Fracture In Time and Libitina.

Singleton declined to participate in VH1's Bands Reunited in 2004, when attempts were made to reform ABC for a one-off performance. Only two members, Martin Fry and David Palmer, reunited and performed.

In 2015, Stephen Singleton and Mark White reformed Vice Versa.

Discography

YearArtistAlbum titleLabel
1980 Vice Versa 8 Aspects OfNeutron
1982 ABC The Lexicon of Love Neutron
1983ABC Beauty Stab Neutron
1994Bleep & BoosterThe World Of London
2005Stephen SingletonStephen SingletonWhite label
2014Vice VersaElectrogenesis 1978–1980VOD

References

  1. "Box". Box.net. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  2. "made in sheffield | gunrubber". Sheffieldvision.com. Retrieved 22 May 2020.