Vitamin Z

Vitamin Z's vocalist Geoff Barradale was inspired to be a singer after attending a Paul Young concert; ironically, like Paul Young, Vitamin Z became recognized in the U.S. for one lovelorn ballad in the '80s and really nothing else. The song was "Burning Flame" and it represented Vitamin Z's creative peak, encapsulating the mid-'80s pop scene in England when British artists such as Young, the Style Council, and Spandau Ballet took stabs at blue-eyed soul. Barradale and Nick Lockwood (guitar, bass, keyboards) formed Vitamin Z in Sheffield, England, in 1982. The group immediatel...