{"id":37,"date":"2004-05-15T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp\/2005\/05\/15\/the-erasure-story\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T07:05:48","slug":"the-erasure-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/2004\/05\/15\/the-erasure-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Erasure story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erasure formed after Andy answered Vince&#8217;s advertisement for a singer. He was the 43rd (41st?) singer to be auditioned; <cite>Who Needs Love (Like That)<\/cite> was one of the songs he had to sing. Previously, Andy had first seen Vince playing Space Invaders before a Depeche Mode gig!<\/p>\n<p>Erasure have said that their name came from the movie Eraserhead. The many stories involving a demo tape being mistakenly marked &#8220;Erasure&#8221; have never been confirmed (as far as I know). There&#8217;s also another story that they wrote a long list of potential names which was circulated amongst friends and acquaintances for them to cross off the ones they didn&#8217;t like. &#8220;Erasure&#8221; was the name that was left.<\/p>\n<p>The first single (<cite>Who Needs Love (Like That)<\/cite>) was released in September 1985, but their first big hit was <cite>Sometimes<\/cite>, which reached number 2 in the UK singles chart in August 1986. That was the first of 24 consecutive UK top 20 singles (including the number 1 <cite>Abba-esque<\/cite> EP), up to <cite>In My Arms<\/cite> in January 1997. Since then they have still hit the top 20 regularly &#8212; most recently in March 2005, when <cite>Don&#8217;t Say You Love Me<\/cite> hit number 15.<\/p>\n<p>Vince wrote the first Erasure songs himself, but gradually they settled on Andy writing lyrics with mainly Vince doing the music. Andy has sole writing credits on just one song: <cite>Cry So Easy<\/cite>, from the Wonderland album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasure formed after Andy answered Vince&#8217;s advertisement for a singer. He was the 43rd (41st?) singer to be auditioned; Who Needs Love (Like That) was one of the songs he had to sing. Previously, Andy had first seen Vince playing Space Invaders before a Depeche Mode gig! Erasure have said that their name came from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}