Jeremy Ryder, known professionally as Jack Hues (vocalist/guitarist), and Nick Feldman (guitar) would eventually form the core of Wang Chung. They first met when Hues answered Feldman's advertisement for musicians in the classifieds section of the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker in 1977.They were joined by Bud Merrick on bass and Paul Hammond (ex-Atomic Rooster) on drums, forming the Intellektuals. 　　In less than a year, that band split up. Hues and Feldman then joined up with future Wang Chung drummer Darren Costin, bassist Leigh Gorman, keyboardist Simon Campbell and vocalist Glenn Gregory, to form 57 Men. This band lasted for about eighteen months before breaking up.Gorman would go on to play bass in Adam and the Ants, Gregory went on to become the 　　vocalist for Heaven 17, and Gorman later played in Bow Wow Wow. 　　Hues, Feldman and Costin stayed together and renamed themselves Huang Chung.According to Feldman, he came across the term "Huang Chung," meaning "yellow bell" in Mandarin, in a book he was reading, and used it as the name for the band.