# Stephen Singleton

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For the footballer, see [Stephen Singleton (footballer)](/source/Stephen_Singleton_(footballer)).

**Stephen Barry Singleton** (born 17 April 1959) is an English musician and composer. He was the saxophonist in the [pop](/source/Pop_music) band [ABC](/source/ABC_(band)) (which he left in 1984), starring in the 1983 short film *Mantrap*.[1]

According to an interview Singleton did for the documentary *[Made in Sheffield](/source/Made_in_Sheffield)* (2001), he was friends with [Def Leppard](/source/Def_Leppard)'s lead vocalist [Joe Elliott](/source/Joe_Elliott) when the two were young children. Along with [Mark White](/source/Mark_White_(British_musician)) and David Sydenham, he founded the [electronic](/source/Electronic_music) band [Vice Versa](/source/Vice_Versa_(band)) in 1977. He also produced several issues of *Steve's Papers*, a Sheffield punk fanzine.[2]

In the early 1990s, Singleton was a member of the band Bleep & Booster, who released an album on [London Records](/source/London_Records) and produced some remixes for [East 17](/source/East_17). Singleton also produced records by Treebound Story (featuring a young [Richard Hawley](/source/Richard_Hawley)) The Screaming Trees album A Fracture In Time and Libitina.

Singleton declined to participate in [VH1](/source/VH1)'s *[Bands Reunited](/source/Bands_Reunited)* in 2004, when attempts were made to reform ABC for a one-off performance. Only two members, Martin Fry and David Palmer, reunited and performed.

In 2015, Stephen Singleton and Mark White reformed [Vice Versa](/source/Vice_Versa_(band)).

## Discography

Year Artist Album title Label 1980 Vice Versa 8 Aspects Of Neutron 1982 ABC The Lexicon of Love Neutron 1983 ABC Beauty Stab Neutron 1994 Bleep & Booster The World Of London 2005 Stephen Singleton Stephen Singleton White label 2014 Vice Versa Electrogenesis 1978–1980 VOD

## References

1. ["Box"](http://www.box.net/shared/a2cfiadb0p). *Box.net*. Retrieved 2020-05-22.

1. ["made in sheffield | gunrubber"](http://www.sheffieldvision.com/aboutmis_gunrubber.html). *Sheffieldvision.com*. Retrieved 2020-05-22.

## External links

- [Stephen Singleton](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802332/) at IMDb

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