THE PASSIONS

The roots of the Passions were basicaly a Londonpunk band called The Delericts, although their bassist, Clive Temperly, had been involved in one of the mythical pre-punk bands: The 101'ers (other members of which further formed The Clash!). With this good musical background they soon started the new project, leaving back the punk and jumping to the post-punk sound to be on the wave : a goth touch, a cool look, and, the most important, a bunch of good and strange songs.

Their beginnings were not their best. The first album Michael and Miranda (1980), is too nervous and strange to convince. Thankfully, their second album , Thirty thousand feet over China (1981) started in a more melodic way, with great pop songs as Bachelor Girls or Skin Deep and also a strange and untemporal jewel of strange magnetism called I'm in Love with a German Filmstar, where the vocalist Barbara Cogan shows how to sing in the most unpassioned way a passioned song. Skin Deep and I'm in love of a German Filmstar where released as singles.

Their third and last album was Sanctuary (1982), it is also a very good record in the same way of dark pop with bits of epic sound and of course not very commercial. This was the last release of this strange band. By 1985 Polydor released a sort of best of called Passion Plays. This CD contains a collection of tracks from their second and third album. Their most well known singler are there :'I'm in love with a german filmstar', 'Skin deep','Africa mine' and 'Jump for joy'. Since those times, nothing, until in 1998 i heard a song on the radio which featured Babara Cogan on vocals, didn't pay much attention so i couldn't get more details. Can you help me with more information of the band and their discography? Mail me please.

UNCOMPLETED DISCOGRAPHY OF THE PASSIONS