Albums: Communards, Communards, Red

The Communards were a British pop duo of the 1980s comprised of singer Jimmy Somerville and multi-instrumentalist Richard Coles. The band had their first UK Top 20 hit in 1985 with the piano-based single "You Are My World." The following year they had their biggest hit with an energetic cover version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' soul classic "Don't Leave Me This Way" (in a version inspired by Thelma Houston's cover) which spent four weeks at number one and became the UK's biggest selling single of 1986. It featured Sarah-Jane Morris as a co-vocalist.

Later that year The Communards had another UK Top 10 hit with the single "So Cold the Night." In 1987 they released an album called Red which featured a cover version of The Jackson 5's hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" (in a version inspired by Gloria Gaynor's cover), which the Communards took to Number 4. The group split in 1988, with Somerville continuing as a solo act; Coles went on to become an ordained Anglican priest.

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