The Anvil (album)
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| Studio album by Visage | ||||
| Released | March 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 at Mayfair Studios in Primrose Hill, London | |||
| Genre | Synthpop, new wave | |||
| Length | 40:33 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Visage & Midge Ure | |||
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The Anvil is the second studio album by the British rock/pop band Visage, released in March 1982 by Polydor Records. The album reached No. 6 in the UK and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in April 1982. The Anvil was a legendary Gay after hours club where famous Danceteria DJ Bill Bahlman created the extremely popular "New Wave Nights at the Anvil" One night Bahlman invited Visage lead singer Steve Strange. So impressed with the power and fun of the energy charged, steamy atmosphere, he named his second album "The Anvil" Several of the tracks are his attempt to capture that energy on vinyl.
The only musician of the first album line-up that did not participate in this album's recording was John McGeoch. McGeoch commented in an interview: "One time I was in Spain [touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees] at the same time as Visage were recording the second album in London. Rusty [Egan] wanted me to put a guitar solo on something or other but I only had one day off and there was no way that I could fly home on my one day off. Rusty is not a man to be put off by such things and he was actually trying to put together a satellite linkup from Madrid to London for this one guitar part. Not surprisingly it didn't come off but I was sorry not to have been as involved on The Anvil as I had been on the first album".
The Anvil was released in March 1982. It reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, which was the band's highest ever chart peak in the UK, and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in April 1982. The album sparked a brief controversy at the time of its release for being named after New York's famous gay bar/nightclub of the era.
The album's first single was "The Damned Don't Cry" which was released three weeks ahead of the album and reached No. 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The second single released was "Night Train" in June 1982, reaching No. 12. The album's title track was remixed and released as a promo single as well as a German-language 12" version ("Der Amboss"), and "Whispers" was also released as a single in Japan (where both it and "Night Train" were used in TDK television commercials).
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