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Album
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, released = 1984
, recorded = July 1984
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, genre =
Gothic rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...
,
electronic
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John Fryer John Fryer may refer to:
*John Fryer (physician) (died 1563), English physician, humanist and early reformer
*John Fryer (physician, died 1672), English physician
*John Fryer (travel writer) (1650–1733), British travel-writer and doctor
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and M.A.D.
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Mankind's Audio Development was developed in 1984 by Rob Hickson (vocals) and Pete Waddleton (bass) of
gothic rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...
group Play Dead and signed on to Criminal Damage Records. Mankind's Audio Development was also known as "M.A.D." for short and featured the backing vocals of Michelle Ebeling (singer,
Look Back in Anger
''Look Back in Anger'' (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet i ...
). The group released one 12" single called "Sunfeast/Craving Single". It was the only known single recorded by M.A.D. The two songs "Sunfeast" and "Craving" were never released on CD. Hickson and Waddleton had made plans to make sequels to this single with completely different sounds and they were also planning to re-release the first single under their new independent label Tanz, depending on the band's condition after the release of ''
Company of Justice
''Company of Justice'' was the final studio album of Play Dead. After an early series of signing with independent record labels (Fresh, Jungle, Situation 2 and Clay), Play Dead created their own record label called Tanz in early 1985 (under th ...
''. Sequels were never produced when Play Dead dissolved in January 1986.
The single was recorded at
Blackwing Studios
Blackwing Studios was an English recording studio, most notable for early Depeche Mode and Yazoo recordings in the early 1980s.
Background
The Blackwing Studios complex was housed inside a deconsecrated church in south-east London. All Hallows ...
in July 1984 and produced by John Fryer and M.A.D.
vocals
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backup vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...
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John Fryer John Fryer may refer to:
*John Fryer (physician) (died 1563), English physician, humanist and early reformer
*John Fryer (physician, died 1672), English physician
*John Fryer (travel writer) (1650–1733), British travel-writer and doctor
*Sir John ...