Sad Café

Sad Café was an English soft rock band that was founded in Manchester in 1976. Leader of the band was singer Paul Young.

Sad Café was founded in 1976 by Vic Emerson (keyboards), Ashley Mulford (guitar), John Stimpson (bass) and Tony Cresswell (drums), all ex-members of Mandala band, supplemented with singer Paul Young and second guitarist Ian Wilson. However, in that year recorded a debut album was not released. The real debut was a year later the album Fanx Ta-Ra. The greatest successes of the band were the albums Misplaced Ideals (1978) and Facades (1979) and the coming of that last album hit singles Every Day Hurts and My oh My.

Because there was no sign of further (hit) success in 1981, the band apart. In 1985 Paul Young closed in to Mike and the Mechanics and he founded a new Sad Café on, in a modified occupation. Young died of a heart attack on 15 July 2000, making the end of Sad Café. In 2011 appeared to hear an album on which his last material is. ==Discography[ Edit] == ===Singles[ Edit] === Following singles were the US and/or UK singles chart with two formats in the Single Top 100:

===Albums[ Edit] === The following album the American and/or UK singles chart; in Netherlands appeared no album in the Album Top 100:
 * Jan. 79 # 71 "Run Home Girl" (US)
 * Sep. 79 # 3 "Every Day Hurts" (UK)/# 48 in NL
 * Jan. 80 # 32 "Strange Little Girl" (UK)
 * Mar. 80 # 14 "My Oh My" (UK)/# 42 in NL
 * Jun 80 # 62 "Nothing left Toulouse" (UK)
 * Sep. 80 # 41 "La-Di-Da" (UK)
 * Dez. 80 # 40 "I'm in love again" (UK)
 * Aug. 81 # 78 "La-Di-Da" (US)


 * Fanx Tara (1977, # 56 UK)
 * Misplaced Ideals (1978, # 50 UK)
 * Misplaced Ideals (1979, US version or the two first LPs, # 94 US)
 * Facades (1979, # 8 UK, # 146 US)
 * Sad Café (1980, # 46 UK, # 160 US)
 * Live (1981, # 37 UK)
 * Olé (1981, # 72 UK)
 * Politics of Existing (1985)
 * Whatever it Takes (1989)