Stephen Singleton

For the footballer, see Stephen Singleton (footballer).

Stephen Barry Singleton (born 17 April 1959) is an English musician. He was the saxophonist in the pop band ABC (which he left in 1984), starring in the 1983 short film Mantrap.^[1]

Stephen Singleton
Background information
Birth name	Stephen Barry Singleton
Born	(1959-04-17) 17 April 1959 (age 66) Sheffield, England
Genres	New wave synth-pop
Occupations	Musician composer
Instruments	Saxophone guitar keyboards synthesizers
Years active	1977–present

According to an interview Singleton did for the documentary Made in Sheffield, he was friends with Def Leppard's lead vocalist Joe Elliott when the two were young children. Along with Mark White and David Sydenham, he founded the electronic band Vice Versa in 1977. He also produced several issues of Steve's Papers, a Sheffield punk fanzine.^[2]

In the early 1990s, Singleton was a member of the band Bleep & Booster, who released an album on London Records and produced some remixes for East 17. Singleton also produced records by Treebound Story (featuring a young Richard Hawley) The Screaming Trees album A Fracture In Time and Libitina.

Singleton declined to participate in VH1's Bands Reunited in 2004, when attempts were made to reform ABC for a one-off performance. Only two members, Martin Fry and David Palmer, reunited and performed.

In 2015, Stephen Singleton and Mark White reformed Vice Versa.

Discography

Year	Artist	Album title	Label
1980	Vice Versa	8 Aspects Of	Neutron
1982	ABC	The Lexicon of Love	Neutron
1983	ABC	Beauty Stab	Neutron
1994	Bleep & Booster	The World Of	London
2005	Stephen Singleton	Stephen Singleton	White label
2014	Vice Versa	Electrogenesis 1978–1980	VOD