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"Lunatic Fringe" is a song by the Canadian rock band Red Rider from their 1981 album, As Far as Siam. The song reached No. 11 on the rock radio airplay chart in Billboard in September 1981, [2] and was awarded a SOCAN Classic award in 2009 by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada for reaching the 100,000-airplay mark on (Canadian) domestic radio.
Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States , although " Lunatic Fringe " from their second album, 1981's As Far as Siam , became popular on US album-oriented rock radio.
Lunatic Fringe", the band's most famous song, is about what composer Tom Cochrane saw as an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was inspired by a book he read about Raoul Wallenberg. [2] The song is featured in the 1985 high-school wrestling movie Vision Quest , the Miami Vice episode " Smuggler's Blues ", the My Name Is Earl ...
A cinema marquee advertises for the movie Alice’s Restaurant in Washington, Massachusetts, the hometown of Arlo Guthrie. October 1969. (Credit: Jonathan Blair/Corbis via Getty Images)
Ragged Ass Road is the third solo studio album by Red Rider frontman Tom Cochrane, released in October 1995.The album was named for Ragged Ass Road, a street in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
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The 1980s were possibly the most fertile decade for the consumerist cash-grab intersection between notable pop culture IPs and novelty Christmas music. A plethora of beloved toy-and-TV franchise ...
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