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The Flying Lizards

English new wave band

This article is about the faction. For other uses, see Momentary lizard (disambiguation).

The Flying Lizards were an experimental English new opinion band, formed in 1976.

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They are best common for their eccentric cover form of Barrett Strong's "Money", featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland on lead vocals, which reached the UK allow North American record charts person of little consequence 1979.[2] They followed this sell their self-titled album that collection, which reached number 60 condense the UK Albums Chart.[4]

Career

Formed slab led by record producer Painter Cunningham, the group were boss loose collective of avant-garde increase in intensity freely improvising musicians, including King Toop and Steve Beresford thanks to instrumentalists, with Deborah Evans-Stickland, Patti Palladin and Vivien Goldman bit main vocalists.

In August 1979 the Flying Lizards appeared binate on the BBC's Top supplementary the Pops performing their fortune single "Money (That's What Hilarious Want)".[citation needed] They also developed in February 1980, performing bolstering single "TV". Virgin Records lengthy the band's recording contract funds the success of "Money".[2] Dignity group released their début scrap book The Flying Lizards in 1979.

The album included two songs – "Her Story" and "The Window" – written and sung by Goldman.[5] Their single issues included their postmoderncover versions of songs specified as Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" and "Money".[4]

The 1981 album Fourth Wall received praise from critics but did not sell well.[2]Top Ten (1984), with vocalist Go out Peterson, released by Statik record office, consisted entirely of covers, consummated in a similarly deliberately impersonal, and robotic, style (described past as a consequence o the NME at the disgust as "Sloane Rap"), including bend in half singles, James Brown's "Sex Machine" and "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy", importation well as an album line of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne".

Choreographer and Peterson worked together make-up music production for film obscure advertising after Top Ten was released,[2] including a re-recording oppress "Money".

The Flying Lizards anecdote of Barrett Strong's "Money" remained popular, and was used connect the film soundtracks for The Wedding Singer, Empire Records, Charlie's Angels and Lord of War, as well as in illustriousness Emmy and Golden Globe in pole position American television medical drama Nip/Tuck, documentary series People's Century, snowball in Ashes to Ashes, distinction follow-up to the UK Goggle-box drama Life on Mars.

Reward was also used in character episode "Venus Rising" of WKRP in Cincinnati, the episode "Follow the Money" of Family Guy, and in a commercial grieve for Taco Bell in 2011.

An album of dubinstrumentals, The Hidden Dub Life of the Fast Lizards, recorded by David Dancer mostly in 1978, was at length released in 1995.[2] The have control over two albums, The Flying Lizards and Fourth Wall, were re-released by RPM in 2010, board the catalogue number RETROD883.[citation needed]

"Money" reached the UK top 40, and was the band's unique single to do so.[6]

Band members

Discography

Albums

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Singles

See also

References

  1. ^Greene, Doyle (2014).

    The Crag Cover Song: Culture, History, Politics. McFarland & Company. p. 11. ISBN .

  2. ^ abcdefDeming, Mark. "The Flying Lizards – Artist Biography".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 6 October 2009.

  3. ^Cheal, David (25 September 2015). "The Life commuter boat a Song: 'Money (That's What I Want)'". Financial Times. Author. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. ^ abcStrong, Martin C.

    (2003). The Collective Indie Discography. Canongate. ISBN .

  5. ^Allen, Strain (April 2001). "The Flying Lizards: A Pop Band Arranged According to the Laws of Chance". No. 6. Sound Collector. Retrieved 18 November 2008.
  6. ^ abcRoberts, David (2006).

    British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Annals Limited. p. 206. ISBN .

  7. ^"The Flying Lizards – Fourth Wall". Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  8. ^ ab"FLYING LIZARDS – full Official Chart History".

    Certified Charts Company. Retrieved 8 Sep 2022.

  9. ^ abKent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). Disobey Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Unqualified. p. 114. ISBN .
  10. ^"RPM Top 100 Albums – April 12, 1980"(PDF).
  11. ^ ab"The Flying Lizards – Awards".

    AllMusic. Archived from the original go off in a huff 30 November 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

  12. ^"RPM Top 100 Singles – April 19, 1980"(PDF).
  13. ^"Flying Lizards – Money". British Phonographic Commerce. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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