Biography
Scarlet Fantastic came into being in Birmingham, West Midlands, England during 1985, coinciding with the breakup of the short-lived Swan’s Way. Following the release of one album, the original trio parted ways with Robert Shaw, enabling vocalist Maggie DeMond and instrumentalist Rick Jones to carry on under the Scarlet Fantastic banner. Clad in vivid outfits that suited the New Romantic period, the pair scored two charting singles: ‘No Memory’, which reached number 24 in October 1987, and ‘Plug Me In (To The Central Love Line)’, which peaked at number 67 in January 1988. They also issued a lone album that failed to chart and that Jones later described as ‘disjointed’. The project ended in 1988. DeMond subsequently teamed with American guitarist Lief Kahal to form a folk/rock duo; after completing the album Blue Mirror Music under the name Pilots Of The Impossible, they adopted the moniker Milk in the mid-90s in hopes of landing another deal. Rick Jones, who had departed amid both personal and professional friction with DeMond, went on to assemble the disco outfit Freakout, launched the London venue Fever, and established himself as a prominent club DJ. By the mid-90s he had resumed creating his own recordings.
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