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Mike played keyboard and guitar, and was a vocalist. A Flock of Seagulls started playing in bars and practised on top of the hall where Mike worked, until they got a contract with a record label. Soon after that, their debut self-titled album, A Flock of Seagulls, was released in 1982, and
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.
Paul Reynolds (born 4 August 1962) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame as the lead guitarist of the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls. AllMusic writer Tom Demalon praised Reynolds for his unique guitar style, which set his band apart from other synth-heavy acts of the time. [1]
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]
Lead vocalist Mike Score says that there were two main sources of inspiration for "I Ran (So Far Away)". The members of A Flock of Seagulls would regularly visit Eric's Club in Liverpool, where one of the bands had a song called "I Ran". Score noted that because A Flock of Seagulls would rehearse right after returning from Eric's, the song ...
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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 ...