Lanza was the pop image of a tenor, but the voice really was not large enough to fill a 3,000-seat theater.
But Island wanted a pop image to sell... and they didn't get one.
Included on the album was a new track "Girls of Summer" which the band named the tour after to promote the song and their pop image.
The appropriation of pop images is by now a time-honored tradition.
The piece references ideas gathered from pop images such as mail order catalogs, and heroes in contemporary advertising.
Along with their increasingly polished pop image, the group found themselves at odds with the new black pride sweeping across America.
"Face" was a brash, amusing collection of pop images.
Knowles reenacts a series of iconic pop images in the video.
Originally released in May 1990, Ridgeley's effort was a sharp turn away from his former pop image with Wham!
With the public still familiar with their clean-cut pop image, the move was unsuccessful and "Magical" became the group's lowest charting single.