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LOST ’80s LIVE
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
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NAKED EYES
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WANG CHUNG
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ANIMOTION
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FARRINGTON & MANN
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Original Vocalists of WHEN IN ROME UK
NU SHOOZ
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DRAMARAMA
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GENE LOVES JEZEBEL
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CHRISTOPHER ANTON
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Formerly of INFORMATION SOCIETY
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A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
It took musical training and talent to sing to
synth and program a drum machine, and a bit
more effort to craft a look and sound that was
original (or odd) enough to get noticed by re-
cord companies, let alone the record-buying
audience. There’s probably no better early ’80s
example of this than A Flock of Seagulls. The
band, founded by hairdressers Mike Score and
Frank Maudsley, Score’s brother Ali, and Paul
Reynolds was a late product of the Liverpool
music scene that produced such hard-hitting
pop acts as Echo & the Bunnymen andThe Tear-
drop Explodes. A Flock of Seagulls’ first single
was “Telecommunication,” an electro-dance
beat piece of new wave pop that, along with oth-
er early offerings, landed the group an opening
slot on Squeeze’s US tour, and over the next six
months it built a substantial following in the
States. With the release of the band’s eponymous
debut album in 1982 came the hits “Space Age
Love Song,” later featured in the 2001 film
Not
Another Teen Movie
, and the song for which A
Flock of Seagulls has become best known, “I
Ran (So Far Away),” the music video of which
secured both the song’s and the band’s fame in
the US. The group also earned a Grammy for the
album’s track “DNA.” A Flock of Seagulls was
initially criticized back home for not wanting to
become UK pop stars, but nonetheless the group
made its mark there with 1983’s
Listen
and its
top-10 single “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of
You).” The group followed up with
The Story of
a Young Heart
(1984), which featured “The More
You Live, the More You Love,” another lasting
hit. The group continues to tour with both fresh
lineups and original members, bringing along
other catalogue classics such as “Nightmares,”
“Transfer Affection,” “Never Again (The Danc-
er),” “Committed,” “Quicksand,” “It’s Not Me
Talking,” and more.
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