At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

Bronski Beat formed in 1983 when Somerville, Steinbachek and Bronski shared a three-bedroom flat at Lancaster House in Brixton.

Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit " Smalltown Boy ".

Bronski Beat signed a recording contract with London Records in 1984 after doing only nine live gigs.

Somerville went on to form The Communards with Richard Coles while the remaining members of Bronski Beat searched for a new vocalist.

Bronski Beat then dissolved with Steve Bronski going on to become a producer for other artists.

Bronski commiserates with his friend and colleague, Greenberg, about always being the ones to " carry a spear ," instead of having starring roles.

Equally shocked, Bronski turns and walks out in silence, but Ehrhardt immediately thinks that Maria is having an affair with Hitler and he has just been caught trying to steal the Führer's girl.

Pursuing a more dance-orientated sound were Bronski Beat whose album The Age of Consent ( 1984 ), dealing with issues of homophobia and alienation, reached the top 20 in the UK and top 40 in the US.

The Communards formed in 1985 after singer Jimmy Somerville left his earlier band Bronski Beat to team up with classically-trained musician Richard Coles.

They were joined by bass player Dave Renwick who had also played with Bronski Beat.

He escapes the ghetto with a handful of survivors including his girlfriend Rachael Bronski.

* Paul Bronski is the husband of Deborah Bronski and, although a Jew, does not wish to be associated with other Jews in any way.

In 1994 he appeared in the film Man Of The House as Chet Bronski, the stepfather of Norman ( Zachary Browne ), and played on this stage with Chevy Chase, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Farrah Fawcett.

The performance contained many humorous re-interpretations of the script, such as continually referring to Brad Wesley by Gazzara's actual name, as well as the substitution of the film's original soundtrack with music from ' 80s synth-pop band Bronski Beat, Pavement, The Alarm, The Smiths, Wilco, Nena, Let's Active, The Misfits, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand and the ' 90s Canadian pop-punk band, Cub.

In 1984 Somerville left Bronski Beat and he and Coles formed The Communards, who were together for just over three years and had three UK Top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986 with a version of " Don't Leave Me This Way ", which was at Number 1 for four weeks.

On the production side, Southend have produced local and international releases for Hoodoo Gurus, Paul Holden, Acid Babies, The Whitlams, Kim Salmon and Michal Nicholas as well as a remix collaboration with Sasha Vatoff of Vagen ’ s track " Buggin " and a cover of Bronski Beat's " Smalltown Boy " which appeared on Groovescooter Records ’ Re: fashioned 2.

We discover this is a local actor, Bronski, who is playing Hitler in a new work satirizing the Nazis.

Guitarist Stu Mason, drummer Tim Desmond, and former Bronski Beat / Communards bassist Dave Renwick left the band in 2010, as work was due to start on a new album.

Ehrhardt is utterly floored, however, when the door opens and Bronski walks in disguised as Hitler.

However, the single was shelved as tensions in the band, both personal and political, resulted in Somerville leaving Bronski Beat in the summer of that year.

" Run From Love " was subsequently released in a remix form on the Bronski Beat album Hundreds & Thousands, a collection of mostly remixes ( LP ) and b-sides ( as bonus tracks on the CD version ) as well as the hit " I Feel Love ".

Dismissing the reason simply as political correctness, Bronski writes, " gay liberation was a youth movement whose sense of history was defined to a large degree by rejection of the past ".

It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Her 1989 follow-up hit " Cha-Cha Heels " ( featuring Bronski Beat ), which was originally intended to be recorded by Divine, received a positive response from UK dance clubs and reached No. 32 in the charts in that country.

Also on the soundtrack was the Bronski Beat song " Hit That Perfect Beat " which was a hit in Australia and the UK.

" I Feel Love " was covered by Bronski Beat on their 1984 album The Age of Consent and released as a single by Bronski Beat featuring Marc Almond in 1985.

Michael Bronski points out that " gay-male-themed books received greater critical attention than lesbian ones " and that " writers such as Gore Vidal were accepted as important American writers, even when they received attacks from homophobic critics.

Michael Bronski, the editor of an anthology of gay pulp writing, notes in his introduction, " Gay pulp is not an exact term, and it is used somewhat loosely to refer to a variety of books that had very different origins and markets " People often use the term to refer to the " classic " gay pulps that were produced before about 1970, but it may also be used to refer to the gay erotica or pornography in paperback book or digest magazine form produced since that date.

Also in 1987, Bronski Beat and Somerville did a reunion concert for " International AIDS Day ", supported by New Order, at the Brixton Academy, London.

In 2007 Bronski remixed the song " Stranger To None " by the UK alternative rock band, All Living Fear.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco

This distracts the Führer's guards long enough for Bronski, now wearing a Hitler mustache, to emerge unnoticed from the men's room and pretend to have come out of Hitler's box surrounded by his " entourage.

His work, although mostly original, also includes acoustic covers of such hits as " Heartbeats " by his fellow Swedes The Knife, " Love Will Tear Us Apart " by Joy Division, " Born in the U. S. A ." and " The Ghost of Tom Joad " by Bruce Springsteen, " Hand on Your Heart " by Kylie Minogue, " Smalltown Boy " by Bronski Beat, " Teardrop " by Massive Attack and " Last Snowstorm of the Year " by Low.

Following Foster's departure, Bronski Beat began work on their next album, Out and About.

Foster and Bronski Beat teamed up again in 1994, and released a techno " Tell Me Why ' 94 " and an acoustic " Smalltown Boy ' 94 " on the German record label, ZYX Music.

Author Michael Bronski highlights the " attack on pre-Stonewall culture ", particularly gay pulp fiction for men, where the themes often reflected ambivalence about being gay or self-hatred.

* Bronski, Michael ( ed.

His effort fails when a young girl asks for the autograph of " Mr. Bronski.

Prominent among them is Bronski, initially without his Hitler mustache from the play.

He also recommends that Bronski / Hitler leave Poland immediately, and all the actors march out, get in Hitler's car and drive away.