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In an Interview with the Worchester Magazine (2017) , Mike Score explains where the band name comes from – my favorite band was The Stranglers. One of their songs was called “Toiler on the Sea.” We were at one of their concerts (The singer) yells out, “a flock of seagulls.” We were in the front row.
Then at the age of 17, he joined the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, a few months after the band was formed, and came to replace the original guitarist Willie Woo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The group's popularity soared in the early 1980s with the release of " (It's Not Me) Talking ," and in 1982 the song " I Ran (So Far Away) " was a hit in the US and at ...
Members of the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls. Pages in category "A Flock of Seagulls members" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Unlike the band's 1982 hit "I Ran (So Far Away)", largely a United States and Australian hit, "Wishing" performed strongly in the band's home country, the United Kingdom, and reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart; in the US, it reached the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid-1983. [6] It was popular in South Africa, reaching No. 8. [7]
Marquart grew up in the town of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and first rock band was Wonderhorse where he played drums. As a self-taught guitarist, he played in bars during his adolescent years. [ 3 ] In 1989, he temporarily played drums for the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls , and in 1990 recorded four songs with Alias [ 6 ] as a drummer before ...
The band played many shows in the North West of England but, in late 1979, the group was disbanded, with the members following different paths. [3] A few months later, in the same year, he founded the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls with his brother Ali Score (drums), his friend Frank Maudsley (bass), and Paul Reynolds (guitar). Mike played ...
He and the members of his band mostly played live shows, but returned with new material with the release of the single "Magic" in 1989. The band returned to the recording studio in 1994 to begin working on new material, by which time the line-up was made up of Score, Ed Berner on guitar, Dean Pichette on bass and A.J. Mazzetti on drums.
The members were Lloyd McCraw, Willie Davis, Austin "Ted" Taylor, Aaron Collins, Glendon Kingsby, and Will "Dub" Jones. [2] In 1955, the group auditioned for Modern Records, and were accepted. [2] The group decided to switch to the popular R&B style, with the exception of Kingsby, who left to continue in gospel music. [1]