Fad Gadget, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fad Gadget

singer

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1956

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 03-Apr-2002

Profession: singer, musician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Francis John Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist.
He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing together a unique blend of pop structured songs mixed with mechanised experimentation. As Fad Gadget, his music was characterised by the use of synthesizers in conjunction with sounds of found objects, including drills and electric razors.
His bleak, sarcastic and darkly humorous lyrics were filled with biting social commentary toward subjects such as machinery, industrialisation, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization while often being sung in a deadpan voice.