The UK band, the Heroes, put out an excellent 1980 LP "Border Raiders". But I just discovered that they recorded an 2nd LP, quite different, which was never released. Take a look at the bottom of the following page.
https://sites.google.com/site/marsbardot/heroes
This LP has some great power pop songs, that easily could have hits. For example, "Last Great Summer", "Yeah!", and "Love Pains".
Even the slower songs are great. I.e., "Reasons for Reverse", has a cool new wave vibe, due to added synths (skip the song Company Car, though, as it's not written by Chris Bradford).
The songs from this page are "warm up" versions of the songs from that album, but they sound pretty good to me! However, the producer has the master tapes for the actual LP, and I've been told that if there is enough interest, he is willing to mix the LP and release it. I personally would love to hear higher quality versions. So please give them feedback, using the link at the bottom.
FWIW, see what an early 1990s Chris Bradford sounded like, by going to this web page:
http://www.noisetrade.com/chrisbradford/wondertime
- Mark