Gang Of Four came together in 1976 in Leeds, UK. Founding members, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, and Jon King soon found bassist, Dave Allen to complete what became the storied line-up whose first release was the Damaged Goods EP on indie label, Fast Product on October 13th, 1978. Their first album, Entertainment! was released by EMI Records in the UK and Europe in September 1979, on the heels of their first US tour that summer, which resulted in them signing to Warner Bros. Records, who then released Entertainment! in the US in 1980. The album has been critically acclaimed and considered a seminal work in the post-punk genre. It was ranked number 273 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2020, and as the fifth best album of 1979 by NME.

Since Allen and then Burnham left the band in the mid‘80s, a number of line-ups and other releases, always featuring Gill and King, came and went, with the original band reuniting in 2005 for almost 2 years of touring. In 2012, King left, assuming the band would cease, but Gill continued working with various session players until his death in 2020.

2021 saw the release by Matador Records of the Grammy-nominated box-set, Gang Of Four: 77-81, a limited/numbered release that sold out within two months. In 2021, Burnham and King drafted former G4-bassist Sara Lee (B-52s, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, et al) and guitarist David Pajo (Slint, Stereolab, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, et al) in to start touring again, with great success and renewed vigor. The current line-up features bassist Gail Greenwood (Belly, L7) and Ted Leo (TL & The Pharmacists, Aimee Mann, et al) and recently completed the ‘Long Goodbye’ headlining tour of the US and Europe. Contrary to some assumptions, Gang Of Four has not retired.

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