ART OF NOISE - BEAT BOX, 1983

The Art of Noise were a group of collaborators headed up by Trevor Horn and Paul Morley and were initially packaged as a faceless anti-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The air of mystery surrounding the band meant that they could, in a famous mixup, receive an American magazine’s award for best black act of the year - not bad going for five middle-aged, middle-class, white people from England.