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The Communards were also an '80's Britpop group

Communard" is an archaic term that is a synonym of "communist". With respect to the history of France, the Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War.


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The Communards: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com (264 words)
Somerville's spirited duet with Sarah Jane Morris on a cover of Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" helped push the record into the Top Ten on the U.K. charts, and a decent blend of other dancefloor fillers with Richard Coles-centric piano ballads lends variety for the ears that can't take… More »
Despite the inability of the music to live up to the high standards of Jimmy Somerville 's ridiculously skilled falsetto voice, the Communards ' first album achieved platinum status in several countries.
Both "Breadline Britain" and "Reprise" continue Somerville's activist ideals; the latter has to be one of the sharpest dissections of Margaret Thatcher.
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