Editing Secret Affair (section)

==Career==
[[File:IAN&DAVE-edit1 (3).jpg|thumb|Ian Page and David Cairns from Secret Affair]]
Formed after the demise of the [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]] signed [[power pop]] band [[New Hearts]],<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|pages=421/2}}</ref> singer [[Ian Page (singer)|Ian Page]] and guitarist [[David Cairns (musician)|David Cairns]] spent the second half of 1978 writing songs that would form the basis of the first two Secret Affair albums.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-l-to-z/artists-s/secret-affair/|title=Secret Affair {{!}} Nostalgia Central|website=Nostalgiacentral.com|date=10 July 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-15}}</ref>

After spending January 1979 [[demo (music)|demoing]] songs, Page and Cairns enlisted the services of bassist Dennis Smith from the power pop band Advertising and Young Bucks drummer [[Seb Shelton]]. Saxophone player Dave Winthrop, originally playing with the group in his capacity as a session musician, would join as a full-time member of the band later in the year.
 
After the demise of the group in 1982, Cairns went on to form a band called Flag, with Archie Brown from [[The Bureau (band)|The Bureau]] and signed a [[recording contract]] in the US. He subsequently teamed up with Scottish singer Alan King in [[Walk on Fire (band)|Walk on Fire]], writing the majority of the band's material and playing keyboards on tours. Signing to [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] in the US, the band released the album ''Blind Faith'' in 1990 and toured supporting [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]], [[Nils Lofgren]] and [[Dan Reed Network]], before Cairns joined [[Gibson Guitars]] USA as Special Projects and Events manager. Page released two solo singles before leaving the music industry.<ref name=":0" /> Having departed the band in late 1980, drummer Seb Shelton joined [[Kevin Rowland]]'s [[Dexys Midnight Runners]] and enjoyed success with them between 1980 and 1982.<ref name="Larkin80"/>