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The air on the terrace is thin, flavored with expensive gin and the faint, metallic hum of a city that never sleeps because it’s too busy working. Behind us, the party is a blur of silk suits and "grown-up irony-laden techno-funk". We stand in the "Luxury Gap"—that narrow, dizzying space between the platinum dreams we sold and the "cracks of the 80s bright visage" we try to paper over. 1983 - The Luxury Gap.rar
, released in April 1983. It is widely considered the band's most commercially successful work, reaching #4 on the UK Albums Chart and featuring several hit singles. www.musicmusingsandsuch.com Original 1983 Tracklist The standard UK release includes nine tracks: "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" "Who'll Stop the Rain" "Let Me Go" "Key to the World" 5. "Temptation" 6. "Come Live with Me" 7. "Lady Ice and Mr Hex" 8. "We Live So Fast" 9. "The Best Kept Secret" Content of Special Editions If you want to dive deeper into the
The album was recorded at in London during a period of high creative freedom, as Virgin Records provided a generous budget that allowed the trio—Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, and Glenn Gregory—to use the studio as a "musical tool". We stand in the "Luxury Gap"—that narrow, dizzying