Beauty Stab by ABC

Remembering the surprising second album by the pop act

I went to the University of Sheffield, home of ABC, who were in the process of breaking up just as I arrived in 1990. Even as someone who consciously avoided chart music at the time, I was well aware of the band and their brilliant early 80s singles: The Look of Love, Poison Arrow and All of my Heart. What I was not aware of at the time, was their fasci…