Fiona Russell-Powell
| Fiona Russell Powell | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Eden, Cooper O'Kelly (as poet) |
| Born | 2 April 1962 |
| Origin | England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, journalist |
| Instruments | Back-up vocals |
| Years active | August 1984 - December 1985 as musician; 1982–present as journalist and writer |
| Labels | Mercury Records |
| Associated acts | ABC, Vice Versa |
Fiona Russell Powell (born 2 April 1962) is a British journalist. She is best known for her series of interviews throughout the 1980s in The Face magazine. For a brief period in the mid-1980s, she performed as a member of pop group ABC in videos and onstage to support their cartoon-synth album How to Be a ... Zillionaire! (1985). She performed under the stage name "Eden", so she could continue with her music and style journalism at the same time.
Growing up in Dore, Sheffield, she had known ABC from their early days as an electronic three piece called Vice Versa. She joined Vice Versa very briefly after keyboard player David Sydenham left the band but, after only three rehearsals in ABC co-founder Stephen Singleton's cellar, the fourteen-year-old "chickened out" when she was told they would be supporting Simple Minds in a Leeds pub the following night.
After running away from home and subsequently leaving Sheffield High School for Girls aged 15, Fiona moved to London when she was 17 and slept on Heaven 17 singer Glenn Gregory's floor before moving into the notorious Carburton Street squat where she took over Boy George's old room. Fellow squatters included 1980s transgender singer Marilyn, DJ and Haysi Fantayzee frontman Jeremy Healy, and milliner Stephen Jones. In 1982, aged 20, she started writing for The Face as a features writer, concentrating mostly on music and became notorious for her irreverent mickey-taking interviews with leading pop stars of the day. Meanwhile, she moved into a three-bedroom council flat in Old Street with Richard Habberley, who moved out of Boy George's St John's Wood flat, and Amanda Metro, a backing singer for Mari Wilson.
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