![]() ![]() He said: “We were one of the first bands of that era to go to America and play. And Mike doesn’t think it was all about the image, although he concedes the new music channel MTV helped. While Duran Duran and Culture Club broke America, the Gulls were one of only a few Brit bands from the 80s to actually make any mark Stateside. The single I Ran (So Far Away) went to No1 in Australia and Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) topped the charts in France. Their 1982 self-titled debut album went to No10 in America and they won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1983 for D.N.A. Seen as a band to laugh at, the Liverpool-based Gulls were one of the UK’s big breakthrough outfits. We had a crazy image and our music was upbeat rather than dark and gloomy.” “That’s what people liked about the band. “But I’d love to have a wig made like the haircut I had in the 80s and play these hits like Wishing then pull it off at the end. The former hairdresser from Beverley, Yorkshire, said: “I basically shave my head now and people still come up and ask, ‘Are you going to do your hair tonight?’ and I say, ‘What do you think?’ If you haven’t followed the band since the 80s, we have a secret – Mike doesn’t have ANY hair any more. Pulp Fiction, Family Guy, Friends, Austin Powers, The Wedding Singer and Ben Stiller’s The Suburbans last year all have name-checked it or the band.Īs Mike, 55, prepares to fly to Scotland next weekend for the Rewind Festival, he laughed: “I think that haircut owns me, I don’t own it.” No other haircut has been name-checked so often in popular fiction. Only the hairstyles of Twiggy or Jennifer Aniston have been talked about so much. The most iconic haircut of the 80s came courtesy of Mike Score, the lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls. Then make sure to like, review, and subscribe to TSBTS wherever you get podcasts for updates on all our new episodes.YOU can argue that Kajagoogoo star Limahl’s hedgehog mullet or The Human League frontman Phil Oakey’s lopsided look were the big haircuts of the 80s.īut you are wrong. Score looks back at that fateful meeting over 40 years ago with host Peter Csathy on this episode of The Story Behind the Song. Listen to him discuss A Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran (So Far Away)” and more in the episode above, or watch a segment on the video player below. While going into a meeting a Zoo Records, he saw a poster of a spaceship chasing a man and a woman - and the rest is history. Beginning as a hairdresser in Liverpool (go figure), Score had plenty of experience styling the great musicians of the era before he stepped in to front a band himself. Under that wave of hair and behind the music is Mike Score, frontman, songwriter, and synth-player. ![]() A Flock of Seagulls sang the song on Glee and it features in Grand Auto: Vice City characters in Friends (Ross) and The Wedding Singer sported the iconic hair-flop. That Seagull-ian hairstyle transfixed audiences back then, and continues to be burned into the collective pop culture psyches of today. ![]() Taken from their self-titled debut (a 40th anniversary edition and box set for which is coming on February 17th), the track helped define the band - as did their look. ![]() “I Ran” is a song that immediately spread its wings around the world when it was released in March of 1982, and continues to fly today. ![]()
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