With their homoerotic image and Nazi-baiting lyrics, Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl were synth-disco rebels bent on pulverising the rulebook
The early 80s was a golden age for pop duos: OMD, Soft Cell, Associates, Tears for Fears, Blancmange, Yazoo, Cabaret Voltaire, Wham! It was as though the four- or five-piece rock group was suddenly a defunct, cumbersome relic of a bygone era.
Somehow, the sleek two-piece – generally a flamboyant, energetic frontman with his dour, trusty musical sidekick – suited this modernist new dawn, shorn of the baggage or excess of the conventional band. King Crimson’s Robert Fripp had predicted this updated, more adaptable mode back in 1974 when, in an interview with Melody Maker, he heralded the future of the performing and recording outfit as “small, mobile, independent and intelligent units”. DAF were this writ large.
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