Biography
Emerging as a notable force in the synth pop wave that defined the first half of the 1980s, Naked Eyes came together in the United Kingdom during 1981. The lineup featured Pete Byrne on vocals alongside Rob Fisher on keyboards, two musicians who had known each other since their school days. March 1983 marked their initial release with the album Burning Bridges, an effort that reached American listeners the next month in shortened form under the band’s own name. Its opening track, a sweeping rendition of the Burt Bacharach–Hal David standard “Always Something There to Remind Me,” registered strongly on both sides of the Atlantic and climbed into the U.S. Top Ten, propelled by repeated exposure of its video on the newly launched MTV. The follow-up single issued stateside, “Promises, Promises” (unrelated to the Bacharach/David composition), likewise scored substantial chart success and suggested continued momentum for the pair. Their 1984 album Fuel for the Fire, however, met with limited response, its sole single “(What) In the Name of Love” reaching only the lower portion of the Top 40. The duo soon parted ways, after which Fisher reappeared in 1988 as half of the pop act Climie Fisher. He passed away on August 25, 1999, from complications that arose following stomach surgery.
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