Gene Loves Jezebel (GLJ) originally formed in the early 1980s by identical twin brothers Michael and Jay Aston and Ian Hudson. Gene Loves Jezebel’s best-known songs include Sweetest Thing’Heartache”, “Desire (Come and Get It)” (1986), “The Motion of Love” (1987), as well as their broody dark alternative club hits “Bruises” (1983), ‘Shame’ “Influenza (Relapse)” (1984), and “The Cow” (1985).

They released several albums via Beggars Banquet and affiliate label Situation Two.