Babble

Alannah Currie, born September 28, 1957 in New Zealand, joins Englishman Tom Bailey, born January 18, 1956, to create the duo Babble. The pair had previously constituted the Thompson Twins, a dance-rock band whose seven albums reached the U.S. charts from 1982 to 1989, with the million-selling Top Ten success Into the Gap (1984) marking their peak and spotlighting the group's biggest single, "Hold Me Now" (#3). Shifting to a six-piece lineup that incorporated Indian and new age influences, they issued their first release under the Babble name, The Stone, in 1994. Ether arrived two years afterward.