“Pleasure Boys” by Visage

Visage were a man down when Polydor released "Pleasure Boys" on 29 October 1982. Midge Ure had gone, pulled away by creative differences with Steve Strange and by his work in Ultravox, and this was the synth-pop group's first release without him. It came out as a stand-alone single on 7-inch and 12-inch, plus a limited 7-inch picture disc for the collectors, and only found an album home the next year on Fade to Grey – The Singles Collection.

Tim Pope shot the black-and-white video, dressing Strange up in Marlon Brando's look from The Wild One and putting him astride a Harley-Davidson. After a run of five hits across 1981 and 1982, it was the first Visage single that failed to reach the UK Top 40.

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