Vice Versa was a synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band from Sheffield

Sheffield

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

England

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. Vice Versa comprised future members of the successful pop group ABC

ABC (band)

ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...

.

Formed in 1977 by Stephen Singleton

Stephen Singleton

Stephen Singleton is a British musician, currently residing in Sheffield, England. According to an interview Singleton did for the documentary Made in Sheffield, he was friends with Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott when the two were young children. Along with Mark White and David Sydenham, he...

, Mark White

Mark White (musician)

Mark White is an English musician, best known for being part of the pop band ABC, from 1980 to 1992. His last contribution to the band was their 1991 album, Abracadabara....

 and David Sydenham, they founded their own label, Neutron Records, releasing the EP

Extended play

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 Music 4. They had similarities to The Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

, who they supported in 1978.
Martin Fry

Martin Fry

Martin Fry is lead singer of the band, ABC.-Biography:He grew up in Bramhall, Stockport, alongside his younger brother Jamie .-ABC:...

, who wrote the fanzine Modern Drugs, interviewed the band, and shortly afterwards, they asked him to join as synthesizer

Synthesizer

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player, and Fry accepted, and shortly afterwards the band evolved into ABC, with Fry taking over on vocals.

Discography

• Music 4 (EP) (UK, 1979)
• 1980: The First Fifteen Minutes (7") (A four bands' compilation) (UK, 1979)
• 8 Aspects Of (1980)
• Stilyagi (7") (Netherlands, 1980)