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Vince Clarke, who placed an ad in a local newspaper for a vocalist and came up with Andy Bell, a flamboyant, eccentric 21-year-old former professional mincer in a meat factory, who became one of the first performers in pop music to be openly gay. Erasure's second album, "The Circus" (1987) reached the Top 20 in March 1987 and contained their mesmerizing #2 hit single, "Sometimes" along with the disco glitter of 'Victim of Love', which sailed into the UK Top 10 in the same year. Their next album 'The Innocents' (1988) then began an unbroken and extremely impressive run of five chart-topping long-players with such Erasure songs as 'Ship Of Fools' (1988), and the anthemic 'A Little Respect' (1988) also reaching the UK Top Ten, 'Chains of Love' scored them a respectable UK number but more importantly proved so popular in America, that it created the fanatical US following that Clarke and Bell maintain to this day.
In 2003, Erasure demonstrated their maturity with a deferential collection of cover versions called "Other People's Songs". The 12 songs in on the album included somewhat surprisingly for some, a take on Peter Gabriel's folk-pop standard "Solisbury Hill"(2003), which as a single took Erasure straight back into the UK Top 10, aptly demonstrating that the time was right for "Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure" (2003) a collection that succeeded in reminding the world just how many great pop songs that the duo had created during the span of their career. As one critic put it: "With more than 14 million albums sold so far, Erasure have always been proudly, defiantly, shamelessly pop - they even named their chart-topping greatest hits collection Pop! in 1992. But behind all those impressive sales figures and kitsch stage costumes, it has sometimes been overlooked just what consistently great songwriters Vince and Andy have been throughout their career."