Tom Bailey can’t recollect the name of the place where the Thompson Twins performed back when they first arrived in New York City during the group’s early days, circa 1981. But he certainly remembers what happened during showtime at the club. “My bag was stolen from backstage,” he recalls. “It contained a notebook of song ideas. A friend put out a message on local radio asking for it to be returned, and eventually it arrived at my hotel, minus a camera, but with the notebook.”
Hopefully, such ill-fated happenstance won’t occur again to Bailey, lead vocalist of the Thompson Twins, when he returns to the Metro area on Thursday night as one
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