Scarlet Fantastic

The duo Scarlet Fantastic were formed in Birmingham, West Midlands, England in 1985 when the briefly successful Swan's Way collapsed. After a single album the trio lost Robert Shaw, which left vocalist Maggie DeMond and instrumentalist Rick Jones to continue as Scarlet Fantastic. Dressed in garish costumes befitting the New Romantic era, Scarlet Fantastic achieved two hit singles, ‘No Memory' (number 24, October 1987) and ‘Plug Me In (To The Central Love Line)' (number 67, January 1988). They also recorded a sole, non-charting album which Jones remembers as ‘disjointed'. They ...