    visage is a british new wave band. formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning new romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their hit "fade to grey". ==history== ===new wave years (1978â1985)=== founder members steve strange and rusty egan were hosting club nights at blitz nightclub in great queen street, london at the time and were eager to find new music to play, ultimately opting to create music themselves. strange had briefly been in the punk/new wave bands the moors murderers and the photons, and egan was working with midge ure in the band the rich kids. the trio recorded a demo which included a cover of the zager and evans hit "in the year 2525". the visage line-up was completed with the addition of ultravox keyboardist billy currie and three fifths of the post-punk band magazine â guitarist john mcgeoch, keyboardist dave formula and bassist barry adamson (who left the band early on after the band's debut single, but returned as a session musicianthe electricity club - rusty egan interview). producer martin rushent had heard some of the band's material at billy's nightclub and financed further recordings with a view to signing the band to his then-new genetic records label. visage recorded their first album at rushent's home studio in berkshire, but rushent's label collapsed before it had gotten off the ground and the band instead signed to radar records, a new independent label run by rushent's former colleague martin davis (the pair had worked together at united artists records). visage released their first single, "tar", on radar in september 1979, though the single failed to chart. although the band's self-titled debut album had been completed for several months, it was not released until november 1980 
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