The first age of synth-pop was a shot in the arm that British music didn’t realise that it needed as the 60s utopian dream gave way to the pressurised vacuum and realistic demands that the 1970s pushed upon a beige and dispirited land. Punk and Disco had filled the void left by the power pop years and the muscle of the first wave of Progressive Rock, the new wave of Heavy Metal was still come and blow the minds of many, but the advent of bands such as The Human league, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17, ABC and Blancmange were ready to add a sense of new direction to the charts and the lives of those who were too young for Punk, too cool for Disco.