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Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist, best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins.
May 17, 2019 · Rip It Up 102, January 1986: Alannah Currie. - Rip It Up Archive / Papers Past. Simon Grigg: Alannah Currie is the first cover of 1986. New Zealander musicians doing well internationally was a big story then. No, make that, it was an almost unknown story in 1986 unless you had an Enz connection.
TOM BAILEY was the front man and songwriter for The Thompson Twins. Alongside his wife Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, the trio ruled the world’s airwaves in the ’80s, and they played Live Aid...
Sep 27, 2023 · During her time in Thompson Twins, Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey became romantically involved, later going on to marry. The couple welcomed their first child together, Jackson, in 1987 and had their second child, Indigo, five years later in 1992.
Alannah Currie says the snap is an especially poignant photo as during the tour her mother had a stroke and died soon after. Discover more
Nov 24, 2017 · Her husband died when my father was five years old and she raised two kids single-handed in the Depression, before any state aid. That must have hardened her heart somewhat.
"Long Goodbye" was inspired by the grief suffered by Currie and Bailey when they lost their baby to a miscarriage and the death of Currie's mother on the same day. [3] After several months of grieving, the pair began writing new material for the next Thompson Twins album, Close to the Bone .
