”EUROPE – AND ENGLAND ESPECIALLY – HAD THE MUSIC WE WANTED TO BE PART OF. WE WANTED TO BE OVER THERE. WE WANTED TO BE YOU.”
It’s 40 years since singer Terri Nunn joined songwriter John Crawford (bass, vocals) and David Diamond (keyboards) to form Orange Country new wave electro outfit Berlin. Raunchy single Sex (I’m A…) propelled their second album Pleasure Victim to success in 1983, and they scored their first Billboard Top 30 hit with No More Words, from 1984’s Love Life. Following Diamond’s departure, Berlin topped charts around the world with synth power ballad Take My Breath Away, written by Giorgio Moroder for the 1986 Tom Cruise-starrer Top Gun. A decade after the band’s 1987 split, Nunn reformed Berlin with a new line-up, but has now reunited with Crawford and Diamond for a new album, Transcendance.