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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
A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score , Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds , hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s.
The song exemplifies "synth-pop's spaced-out loneliness" and yearning for imagined, absent lovers, [3] and is noted for its Wall of Sound-styled layer of synthesizer padding – a "multi-layered, hypnotic song", according to AllMusic. [2] According to lead singer Mike Score, "Wishing" was based on a real person. When recalling the experience ...
Title Album details The Singles: Released: June 1985; Label: Jive; Formats: 10x7" Also released as 10x12" as The 12" Singles; The Best of A Flock of Seagulls: Released: October 1986
"Space Age Love Song" is a 1982 single released by the British band A Flock of Seagulls. It was their fourth single. Lead guitarist Paul Reynolds remarked on their 1984 video album Through the Looking Glass that, as the band could not come up with a title for the track, he suggested "Space Age Love Song" because he thought it sounded like a space age love song.
On its release, Music Week called "Who's That Girl (She's Got It)" a "lively, bubbling number" and "danceable electronic pop" with "wide enough appeal to chart". [8] Nancy Culp of Record Mirror commented, "To even have the same title as the seminal Eurythmics stunner is sacrilege. To soil its memory with piffle is an even greater crime." [9]
The Outlaw Music Festival Tour is coming to Northeast Ohio featuring Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp. Here's how to get tickets.
A Flock of Seagulls (1981) 4:55: 2. "Space Age Love Song" A Flock of Seagulls: 3:45: 3. "Telecommunication" A Flock of Seagulls: 2:29: 4. "The More You Live, the More You Love" The Story of a Young Heart (1984) 4:09: 5. "Nightmares" Listen (1983) 4:36: 6. "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" Listen: 5:30: 7. "(It's Not Me) Talking" Listen ...