One of no less than 8 albums that British producer Ian Levine recorded in 1979 and one which has often been described as one of the first boybands to ever exist. Said Levine himself: \"Fiachra Trench and I constructed a concept disco album, “Midnight In Manhattan”, where all of the five long extended tracks, all merged into each other, like a classical suite, and all of the lyrics told a continuing story of a gay love affair, starting out in New York, and ending up in Los Angeles. The song lyrics of the title track were particularly inspired by my visit, in 1976, to hear Jim Burgess play as the DJ at The Infinity, something which Tom Moulton had arranged for me. The awesome impression of walking into a club for the first time, and seeing two thousand half naked men, dancing with their shirts off, and whooping with delight at the music, stuck with me throughout the years, and so I wrote it all down in that one particular song “Midnight In Manhattan”. Rick Gianatos mixed the entire album, and he signed it right away to AVI records, through Ray Harris. We were all at the Billboard Disco Awards in 1979, held at the New York Hilton, and they featured our “Midnight In Manhattan” track, playing loudly while their awards were all being given out. It still is an album that I am thoroughly proud of, and it won us many fans, and a big cult following. The group appeared just one time only, live in London, at Bangs in 1979, at Tallulah’s insistence because he had made such a big hit out of “Miami Heatwave” in the club. So they came down to Bangs, where all of the guys lusted after Paul Kinane, who I must confess that still, right up to this very day, I have no idea whether he was gay or straight. Somehow I never did get around to asking him outright. That same twenty one year old headturner would now be sixty years old. I wonder whatever happened to him.\"
The line-up, besides Paul Kinane, consisted of Pete Butler, Alan Clark, Mike Pender, backed by super session singer Tony Burrows and Chas Mills, Gary Travers and Fiachra Trench.
Levine revived the Seventh Avenue concept with a new line-up in 1984. The constellation kept changing over the years, their second album The Love I Lost being released on Levine's Nightmare Records in 1988, before the group signed with Stock Aitken Waterman and continued as Big Fun, scoring two UK Top 10 hits with a cover version of The Jacksons' Blame It On The Boogie and Can't Shake The Feeling.
