However, Tim Friese-Greene was recruited to assist with the recording of their second album, Its My Life, 10 and he became the bands producer as well as keyboardist and Hollis songwriting partner.Īs such, he did not play with the touring band on live dates, and was absent from the bands publicity material. It was a moderate success in the UK reaching No.21, and was later certified Silver by the BPI for sales of 60,000 copies by 1985.Īt this point, Talk Talk was now a trio, as Brenner was never officially replaced. The album was produced by Colin Thurston, who was Duran Duran s in-house EMI producer at the time, but picked by Hollis because of his involvement with David Bowie s Heroes. The re-release of the Talk Talk single reached the U.S. These singles also were hits in other countries including Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The band had their first UK Top 40 hits with the singles Today (UK No. In addition to a band name consisting of a repeated word, the two shared a Roxy Music -inspired musical direction, as well as the same record label ( EMI ) and producer ( Colin Thurston ).
In their early years they were often compared with Duran Duran. The bands founding bass player and drummer, Paul Webb and Lee Harris, played in several bands together long-term collaborator Tim Friese-Greene continued in the business as a musician and producer. Singer Mark Hollis released one solo album in 1998 before retiring from the music industry he died in 2019. Webb departed, and the band switched to Polydor for their final studio album, 1991s Laughing Stock, but split soon afterwards.
Musical style Plaid is generally described as and has been referred to by some critics as 'post-techno.' Note that IDM is a term used in America for what was referred to as Ambient Techno in Britain during the early to mid-1990s and later as Electronic Music.
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