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“They’re the best synth band in the '80s not to have a hit”: 6 under-appreciated synth-pop acts from the 1980s that deserve your attention

Forget your OMDs, your Depeche Modes, Human Leagues, Pet Shop Boys and A-has, because these not-so-popular bleep combos are well worth tracking down instead

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“I absolutely hate synthesizers. They're really bad - horrible. I can take their existence from a live point of view now, but if they didn't exist, I'd be delighted”: The surprising music theory that underpinned a Talk Talk classic

Mark Hollis’ masterpiece became an anthem of self-determination, but it was far from an overnight success

MusicRadar

Pentangle and John Martyn bassist Danny Thompson has died, aged 86

Danny Thompson was a founding member of Pentangle and worked with John Martyn, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk and more

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“There was a sense that the record was the definitive music, and you were to reproduce that night after night. It became boring”: Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting prog influences Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk

Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others

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The week in audio: Invisible Hands with David Dimbleby; Artworks: Talk Talk – Living in Another World; White Hot Hate; Luigi – review

David Dimbleby on the fighter pilot who waged war on government policy; Guy Garvey celebrates a misunderstood masterpiece. Plus, confessions of an FBI agent, and divisive US murder suspect Luigi Mangione

The Guardian - UK

The Very Best Of Talk Talk to be reissued on double vinyl and CD in March

New version of post-rock legends Talk Talk's Best Of has been re-ordered to run chronologically

Louder

‘We can’t all retire because someone died’: the new bands honouring the spirit of old ones, from Talk Talk to Thin Lizzy

Unlike tribute acts or bands still going with no original members, the likes of Held By Trees and House of All are leveraging time spent in their former groups to make music that looks forward as well as back

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“One of the most singular, unique and influential catalogues in music history.” Every Talk Talk album ranked from worst to best

The complete studio output of Mark Hollis' groundbreaking, hugely influential band, re-reviewed and ranked

Louder

“A beautiful farewell from an instinctively progressive talent”: Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis made one stunning solo album, then walked away for ever

Vocalist’s 1998 release was full of prog promise for the future, but turned out to be his last artistic statement before his 2019 death

Louder

King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it

Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials

Louder

The genius of Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden

It was impossible to play live and it sold poorly when released, but Talk Talk's fourth studio album, 1988's Spirit Of Eden is rightly hailed as a masterpiece

Louder

A beginner's guide to new wave in five essential albums

From punk rock to pure pop, new wave saw it all: here, the story of how it happened, told by the records that defined the genre

Louder

Talk Talk, Pretty Little Thing and CBRE: The 19 latest appointments in the North West

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Birmingham Post

Sky customers to be hit by price hikes of around £67 a year

Media giant is latest to warn customers of higher bills but some may be able to walk away from their contact with nothing to pay

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Talk Talk broadband pensioner left without vital landline phone after it is 'cut off'

Jackie Foran relies on her upstairs phone in case she needs urgent help

Manchester Evening News

'People will call me old fashioned but I need it': Pensioner fuming after vital landline phone suddenly 'cut off'

"I know a lot of young people have mobiles now but I don't and I need to use my landline"

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