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Origin
  
Manchester, England

Genre
  
Soft rock

Genres
  
Soft rock

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Years active
  
1976–1990, 1998, 2000, 2012–present

Past members
  
Paul Young Vic Emerson John Stimpson Tony Cresswell Lenni Michael Byron-Hehir Steve Piggot Jeff Seopardi Paul Burgess Phil Lanzon Alistair Gordon

Albums
  
Misplaced Ideals, Fanx Ta-ra, Access All Areas

Record labels
  
RCA Records, Demon Music Group

Members
  
Steve Whalley, Paul Young, Paul Burgess, Ashley Mulford, Dave Irving

Sad Café are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1976, who achieved their peak of popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known for the UK Top 40 singles "Every Day Hurts", "Strange Little Girl", "My Oh My" and "I'm in Love Again", the first of which was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1979. The band also had two US Billboard Hot 100 hits with "Run Home Girl" and "La-Di-Da". Frontman Paul Young went on to achieve greater chart success as the co-lead singer (with Paul Carrack) of Mike + The Mechanics.

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History

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The group formed as a result of the unification of rock bands Mandalaband and Gyro. Its founder members were Paul Young (vocals), Ian Wilson (guitar), Vic Emerson (keyboards), Ashley Mulford (lead guitar), John Stimpson (bass) and Tony Cresswell (drums). Over the course of the band's history only Young and Wilson were constant members, with other musicians amongst the band's ranks over the years including: Dave Irving (drums), Lenni "Sax" Zakson (saxophone), Des Tong (bass), Michael Byron-Hehir (lead guitar), Steve Piggot (keys), Jeff Seopardi (drums), Paul Burgess (drums), Phil Lanzon (keyboards) and Alistair Gordon (keyboards). Harvey Lisberg, who also managed 10cc, arranged for Eric Stewart to produce their third album, Façades, which included the top 3 single, "Every Day Hurts".

The band initially dissolved in 1990, but briefly reformed in 1998, and again in 2000. The 2000 concert was a tribute to the band's former vocalist Paul Young, who had died, aged 53, on 15 July 2000. In 2012, the band was reformed by Wilson, who due to Young's death is now the band's only continuous member, along with other former members Mulford, Irving, and Tong, and new members Sue Quin (vocals, keyboards), Simon Waggott (keyboards) and Steve Whalley (guitars, vocals). The band conducted a UK tour in November 2012, the band's first full live tour in 25 years.

Albums

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  • Fanx Ta-ra (1977, # 56 UK)
  • Misplaced Ideals (1978, # 50 UK)
  • Misplaced Ideals (1979, US version of the two first LPs, # 94 US)
  • Façades (1979, # 8 UK, # 146 US)
  • Sad Café (1980, # 46 UK, # 160 US)
  • Olé (1981, # 72 UK)
  • Politics of Existing (1985)
  • Whatever It Takes (1989)
    • Live
  • Live In Concert (1981, # 37 UK)
    • Compilation
  • The Best Of Sad Café (2001)

    • Singles

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  • 1977: "Black Rose" / "Babylon" (feat. Neil Thompson) (UK)
  • 1977: "Hungry Eyes" / "Bell Ends" (UK)
  • 1977: "(I Believe) Love Will Survive" / "Shellshock" (UK)
  • 1978: "Run Home Girl" / "Black Rose" (US, #71)
  • 1978: "Feel Like Dying" / "Run Home Girl" (US)
  • 1979: "Every Day Hurts" / "Wish This Night Would Never End" (UK, #3)
  • 1979: "Emptiness" / "Cottage Love" (US)
  • 1980: "Strange Little Girl" / "Time Is So Hard To Find" (UK, #32)
  • 1980: "No Favours No Way" (Stereo) / "No Favours No Way" (Mono) (US)
  • 1980: "My Oh My" / "Cottage Love" (UK, #14)
  • 1980: "Nothing Left Toulouse" / "On with the Show" (UK, #62)
  • 1980: "La-Di-Da" / "Love Today" (UK, #41)
  • 1980: "I'm in Love Again" / "Restless" (UK, #40)
  • 1981: "Black Rose" / "(I Believe) Love Will Survive" / "Emptiness" / "Hungry Eyes" (LIVE) (UK)
  • 1981: "Misunderstanding" / "Rat Race" (UK)
  • 1981: "La-Di-Da" (US, #78)
  • 1982: "Follow You Anywhere" / "#Nine" (UK)
  • 1983: "Keep Us Together" / "Hold On" / "(I Believe) Love Will Survive" / "My Oh My" (UK, #76)
  • 1984: "(Why Do You Love Me Like You Do) Heart" / "It's So Easy" (UK)
  • 1985: "Refugees" / "China Seize" (UK)
  • 1986: "Only Love" / "China Seize" (UK)
  • 1986: "Heart" / "Keep Us Together" (US)
  • 1989: "Take Me (Heart And Soul)" / "Universe" (UK)

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    Songs

    Every Day HurtsLive · 2011
    My Oh MyLive · 2011
    Run Home GirlMisplaced Ideals · 2011

    References

    Sad Café (band) Wikipedia
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