Private Lives

If dinosaurs can be divided into different periods so can new wave bands. Time stands still for Private Lives as they will always firmly belong in the mid-‘80s, when the New Romantics began taking inspiration from R&B and Motown records. British artists such as Tears for Fears, Howard Jones, and the Human League introduced elements of blue-eyed soul in their synthesizer-based sounds while their peers like Nik Kershaw, Paul Young, and the Style Council embraced it completely. Private Lives could be seen as forefathers of England's late-‘80s sophisti-pop movement -- Johnny Hates...