Whatever Happened To: The Vapours

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The Vapours's claim to fame

Real Name:	Dave Fenton, Ed Bazalgette, Howard Smith, Steve Smith
A.k.a:	The Vapours
Category:	One Hit Wonders
Submitted by:	StuntPope
Posted Date:	2001-08-22
Last Modified:	2003-11-29
Views:	54083
The Hit:	Turning Japanese

The song "Turning Japanese", which hit number 3 in the UK in 1979.

Where are they now?

According to Colin Larkin, David Fenton was last seen as a landlord of a public house in Woking, Surrey (UK) and Steve Smith went on to found a band called "Cut" (whoever they were).

Reader Ken Sweeny (who sent this a long time ago, sorry) updates us with: "Dave Fenton is a very successful Music business lawyer, Ed Bazalgette makes history programmes for the BBC, another one has a big job in the PRS where songwriters get there royalty cheques from."