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Fun Boy Three were an English new wave pop [1] band, active from 1981 to 1983 and formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left the Specials. They released two albums and had seven UK top 20 hits.
The Fun Boy Three is the debut album by English new wave pop band the Fun Boy Three, a band consisting of three ex-members of the UK ska band the Specials: Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding. It was released in 1982 by Chrysalis Records and was re-released in 1999 by EMI as Fame.
The Very Best of The Specials and Fun Boy Three is an unofficial greatest hits album featuring songs rerecorded by Neville Staple, a former member of both bands.The album comprises new recordings by Neville and his band at the time, The Hitmen; no other members of The Specials or Fun Boy Three were involved.
The Best of the Specials & Fun Boy Three is an album by Neville Staple comprising new recordings of the greatest hits of The Specials and Fun Boy Three, released in 2006.The album is simply a reprint of the 2000 album Ghost Town - 13 Hits of The Specials and Fun Boy Three, which had already been reissued as The Very Best of The Specials and Fun Boy Three.
[3] David Fricke of Rolling Stone observed that the album featured "clever twists of familiar musical themes and everyday situations into bitter accusations of social and sexual betrayal". He praised Byrne's "artful production", adding, "Without muting the dark irony of the group's eponymous debut album, Byrne discreetly amplifies the spare ...
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3 This is the discography of Terry Hall (born Terence Edward Hall; 19 March 1959 in Coventry , England – 18 December 2022) who was the lead singer of the Specials , and formerly of Fun Boy Three , the Colourfield , Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas .
In February 1983, Fun Boy Three released their second studio album, Waiting, which contained two Top Ten hits: "The Tunnel of Love" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". [8] The latter was a song Hall had written with Jane Wiedlin , who had already had success in the US with a version of the song by her group the Go-Go's .