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Alan Vega (real name Alan Bermowitz) was born in Brooklyn in 1948 and is the vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide. Alan Vega's vocals are said to be influenced by Elvis Presley and rockabilly.

He began his artistic career doing light sculptures, and in 1974 he opened a small gallery in lower Manhattan, where he started to create the "Project of Living Artists", a pluri-artistic place to develop various happenings or artistic attempts. Here, he met a jazz band called Reverend B, in which Martin Rev (Martin Reverby) played electric piano. Martin Rev would later become Alan Vega's partner in Suicide. After Suicide disbanded (for the first time) in 1980, Alan Vega released his eponymous first solo record, which contained "Jukebox Babe", one of his best known songs, and defined the kind of rockabilly style that he would follow for some years. Later in his career he made a commercial attempt ("Just a Million Dreams"), which proved to be unsuccessful.

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Discography

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Albums

  • Alan Vega (1980)
  • Collision Drive (1981)
  • Saturn Strip (1983)
  • Just a Million Dreams (1985)
  • The Sisterhood - "Gift" (1986) (playing synthesizer and vocals)
  • Deuce Avenue (1990) (bonus track "Wacko Warrior" on Infinite Zero CD reissue)
  • Power on to Zero Hour (1991)
  • New Raceion (1993)
  • Dujang Prang (1995)
  • Getchertiktz (1996, with Ric Ocasek and Gillian McCain)
  • Cubist Blues (1996, with Alex Chilton and Ben Vaughn) (re-issued as a double CD in 2006)
  • Endless (1998, with Pan Sonic)
  • Righteous Lite (1998, with Stephen Lironi as 'Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus')
  • Daddy Died - A Brooklyn Nightmare (1999, with Stephen Lironi as 'Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus')
  • Sombre (1999) (soundtrack to the film by Philippe Grandrieux)
  • 2007 (1999)
  • Listen to the Hiss / Meet the Heat (single) (2003, with DJ Hell)
  • Resurrection River (2004, with Pan Sonic)
  • Station (2007)
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Compilations

  • 2006 - Silver Monk Time - A Tribute to the Monks (29 bands cover The Monks) label play loud! productions
  • 2006 - The Wiretapper 16 free cd issued to subscribers of The Wire and available on some over the counter issues, but not all.
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Books

  • Cripple Nation - 2.13.61 (1994)
  • 100,000 Watts Of Fat City - Editions Anna Polerica (2000)


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