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(MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) Steve Strange of Visage in New York City on July 18, 1981. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)

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Portrait of English Pop musicians Curt Smith (left) and Roland Orzabal, of the group Tears For Fears, Los Angeles, California, 1985. (Photo by John Kisch Archive/Getty Images)

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