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Erasure had no plans to conquer America when their third full-length The Innocents hit U.S. shores on May 24, 1988. And given their previous LP, 1987's The Circus, only peaked at 190 on the Billboard… ...

Vince Clarke had already been a founding member of two pivotal new wave bands by the time he joined forces with powerhouse vocalist Andy Bell in 1985 to form Erasure. Clarke started with Depeche Mode ...

Any pop fan familiar with Erasure’s 1992 compilation Pop! – and if you’re not, why not? It’s the most purely distilled collection of chart-conquering synth-pop ever produced – will also be familiar ...