The Communards are often associated with artists such as Bronski Beat, Jimmy Somerville, Fine Young Cannibals, Spandau Ballet, and Nik Kershaw. Their music is characterized by catchy synthpop melodies ...

In 1985, he formed the group The Communards. The group's cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" became the top-selling single of 1986 in the UK. After three years with The Communards, he decided to go ...

There was, and remains something soothing about “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat. I grew up in a small town, and went to a ...

A WELL-KNOWN vicar, who was in the band the Communards in the 1980s, will be at Winchester Cathedral in June. The Rev Richard Coles and Dean Catherine Ogle join together for an evening of ...

Richard now resides in Friston, East Sussex. He first found fame as part of The Communards alongside Jimmy Somerville, with the two having been friends before joining the band. They formed the ...

B ritish synth-pop, was a sub-genre of New Wave music that first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Queer bands like ...

Richard now resides in Friston, East Sussex. He first found fame as part of The Communards alongside Jimmy Somerville, with the two having been friends before joining the band. They formed the ...

Among the Communards responsible was the anarchist painter Gustave Courbet, who was heavily condemned to restore the column at his own expense! Dumont's statue was returned to its rightful place ...

Queer bands like The Communards, Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure embraced the sound and helped usher in the Second British Invasion in the United States. Visage was one of the many synth-pop bands ...

The poet–gambler declared in his teens, in 1871 (the year of attempts by the communards to overthrow the established bourgeois order in Paris), that he was working to become a visionary: ‘The Poet ...