A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band from Liverpool, best known for the Eighties classics “I Ran (So Far Away),” “Space Age Love Song,” and “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You),” all staples of early MTV. Their first two albums (A Flock of Seagulls and Listen) helped spearhead the Second […]
Everyone knows the first British Invasion of 1964, spearheaded by The Beatles and codified as a movement by The Dave Clark Five. They opened the US charts to UK acts that ranged from Mersey-lite Northerners (Gerry & The Pacemakers, Herman’s Hermits, The Hollies, The Searchers, Freddie & The Dreamers) to rough/edgy Londoners (The Rolling Stones, […]
Listen is the second album by English modernist New Wave/art-rock band A Flock of Seagulls, released in 1983 on Jive Records. As with the prior album, production duties fell to former Gong-bassist Mike Howlett with the exception of one track, “(It’s Not Me) Talking,” which hailed from the band’s 1981 sessions with Bill Nelson at the […]
A Flock of Seagulls is the debut album by the namesake Liverpudlian New Wave/modern-rock foursome, released in 1982 on Jive/Arista. Propelled by an iconic video, the song “I Ran” helped usher the Second British Invasion of the U.S. Billboard charts. Bill Nelson produced the track “Telecommunication,” which preceded the album as a 1981 single release. […]
