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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.
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.
Waiting is the second and final studio album by English new wave pop band Fun Boy Three, released in 1983 by Chrysalis Records.It featured the hit single "Our Lips Are Sealed", co-written by Terry Hall and previously recorded by the Go-Go's.
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Most of the song's vocals are performed by lead singer Belinda Carlisle, with co-writer Wiedlin singing the bridge. In 1983, Hall's band Fun Boy Three released their version of "Our Lips Are Sealed". Issued as a single, the track became a top-ten hit in the United Kingdom, besting the recording by the Go-Go's which only made it to No. 47 in the UK.
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. [5]
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 last five volumes were issued on 20 June 1995, and featured songs covering 1983 to 1985. Additional themed volumes— New Wave Dance Hits , [ 2 ] New Wave Women , [ 3 ] New Wave Halloween , [ 4 ] and New Wave Christmas [ 5 ] —came out in subsequent years.