John Joe Salvatore Martinez Marion (John) Mulligan is a

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-born new wave musician. He is most prominently known as the bassist and keyboardist of the band

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from 1978-1984.

Biography

Salvatore Martinez Mulligan (AKA: Muligan) born The Sorrento, Moseley Birmingham. United Kingdom. John Joe Salvatore Martinez Marion Mulligan Latin Catholic He is most prominently known as the dreadlocked founder member of the band Fashion (1) as the bassist and keyboardist with Dik Davis on vocals and drums and Luke Skyscraper (Alan James) on vocals and guitar. They toured extensively with The Police, Squeeze, The Stranglers, The Ramones, B 52's, Patti Smith & The Gang Of 4. Product Perfect (1979) on IRS Records. Fashion from 1978 – 1980. Luke Skyscraper, the original singer left after an American tour and was replaced by Tony Dial on vocals and guitar and released the “Alien Tapes” on Fashion Music. Produced by Bob Lamb (UB40) Fashion from 1980 – 1981. De Harris and Marlon Recci joined to form the most successful version of the band. De on lead vocals and guitar, with Marlon on bass. Releasing the singles: Move On, Streetplayer, Love Shadow with Gina X and White Stuff. All produced by Zeus B. Held from the top 10 album Fabrique. De left the act after the release of Fabrique to pursue a career as a session musician and producer. Fabrique (1982) on Arista Fashion from 1981 – 1982. Troy Tate eardrop Explodeseplaced De on vocals and guitar. Fashion 1982 The final Fashion vocalist was Alan Darby Twilight of Idols (1984) on De Stijl Records/CBS Fashion 1983 - 1985 All the way through the various line-ups of Fashion, Muligan had been involved with the bands’ production assisting Bob Lamb and Zeus B. Held. Muligan also had developed a reputation for the bands distinctive artwork and latterly video. Muligan began to feature on other artists work like supplying the arpeggio sequences for Duran Durans’ “The Chauffeur”, plus live session work with Visage before branching out in the late 1980s and early 1990s to become a session musician and producer, latterly as musical director with Bananarama and the Milli Vanilli Band. One of Muligans’ earliest productions being Stephen (Tin Tin) Duffy's first hits “Kiss Me” and “Loves Duet”. Both made on 16 tracks at Bob Lamb studio in Kings Heath, Birmingham. It was his sound design and programming that found him fame with Hollywood Beyond with” What's The Colour Of Money?” Soul II Soul, Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra and Kym Mazelle. Also programming remixes with Ben Chapman, for Alison Moyet and Adamski. In the 1990s Muligan worked with various management and record companies from storyboarding to filming and editing music videos for Instinctive Records, Dub TV and Freetown Records. He now writes and performs music with ‘The League Of Hedonists’ and ‘Star Chamber Orchestra’. Has retired to paint large realist oil painting and designs 1930s inspired clothing for ‘Commonwealth Classics’ with his wife Lucy Muligan-Lei.

Equipment

Synthesizers used in Fashion from 1981 onward: *

Roland Jupiter-8 The Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981. The Jupiter-8 was Roland's flagship synthesizer for the first half of the 1980s. Approximately 3300 units have b ...

(primary keyboard) *

Moog Source The Moog Source is a monophonic Z80 microprocessor-controlled analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 1981 to 1985. The Source was Moog's first synthesizer to offer patch memory storage. The design was also the first (and only) Moog sy ...

PPG Wave The PPG Wave is a series of synthesizers built by the German company Palm Products GmbH from 1981 to 1987. Background Until the early 1980s, the tonal palette of commercial synthesizers was limited to that which could be obtained by combining ...

Oberheim OB-Xa The Oberheim OB-Xa was the second of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers, replacing the OB-X with updated features. History The OB-Xa was released in December 1980, replacing the OB-X after only a year on the marke ...

Discography of Fashion

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Product Perfect ''Product Perfect'' was the debut album of Fàshiön Music (later known as Fashion), released in 1979. It is their only album to feature guitarist–vocalist Luke James. The album has more of a "punk" sound than its synth-driven successors. ...

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Fabrique Fabrique was Fashion's 1982 second album. It was produced by Zeus B. Held. The album included the following UK hit singles: "Streetplayer (Mechanik)" which reached No. 46 in April 1982 and "Love Shadow", which peaked at No. 51 in August of th ...

'' (1982) *'' Twilight of Idols'' (1984)

References

English new wave musicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design {{UK-musician-stub