“I heard a lot more of what we had done there onThe Lexicon of Lovein the Atmos mix,” Fry allows, “and it’s kind of charming how it all comes together. I’m amazed how well it worked. We weren’t perfect in how we made it at the time, but it sounded believable and...
emphatically behind the band. They wanted Fry to write Lexicon of Love Part II. He demurred and, in 1983, ABC released the aggressive, bizarre Beauty Stab. Apart from Fry, nobody knew quite what to make of it.