band in the summer of 1983, as ABC was recording their second album. Featuring a harder, rock sound driven by guitars rather than keyboards, Beauty Stab was released late in 1983. Supported by the number 18 single “That Was Then But This Is Now,” the album didn’t perform as well as the debut, peaking at number 12; the record also was a commercial disappointment in the US Late in 1984, ABC — now consisting solely of Fry and White augmented by various session musicians — released “(How to Be A … The first pieces of musique concrète were written by Pierre Schaeffer, who later worked together with Pierre Henry.