Sujet Synthés dans la variété internationale dans les années 70 et 80.

Alan Charles Wilder was born into a middle class family and was raised in Acton, West London. He began piano at the age of eight, through the encouragement of his parents. Later on, he learned the flute at St Clement Danes grammar school and became a leading musician in his school bands. After school, Alan worked as a studio assistant at DJM Studios. This led to him ending up working for bands such as The Dragons and Dafne & the Tenderspots (as Alan Normal). Others include Real to Real (featuring Adrian Chilvers on bass, Pete Fresh on guitar, Wolfgang Marlander on drums and Paul St. James on vocals), The Hitmen, and The Korgis, appearing on the UK No. 13 single "If I Had You" (1979).

musicien-nes du Punk Rock ou de la New Wave

Suicide, Thau and Leon assembled at Ultima, along with hapless in-house engineer Larry Alexander. They started by setting up Rev’s Farfisa, Rhythm Prince, distortion boxes and hooked in transistor radio. Max’s [kansas City] manager Peter Crowley still marvels at Suicide’s set-up at that time. “They didn’t have any money, so Marty had a primitive drum machine and old Farfisa keyboard, which had broken keys and a bunch of Electro-Harmonix guitar distortion devices that he plugged in series between the keyboard and amplifier in order to get this really raunchy sound. My belief is that they never sounded better than when they had that broken down stuff.”