![]() Their third album “The Story of a Young Heart” (1984) included the song “The More You Live, the More You Love.” It was so different from ‘I Ran.’ It was more of a ballad than ‘I Ran,’ so I was really happy that we weren’t just regurgitating ‘I Ran’ over and over again and ‘Wishing’ became a really big hit, too.” “I played it to the record company and they said, ‘That’s your next single,’ so we went to the Bahamas and recorded it. “The band was having a break after the first album and I just went away and wrote ‘Wishing,'” Score said. The band’s second album “Listen” (1983) featured “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You).” … It brings back a lot of memories over the years when it was written, then when it became a hit, then of course you do get tired of it and you go, ‘What’s wrong with my other songs? Why aren’t they this big?’ But then as you get older you go, ‘We’re lucky to have any hits.'” “Sometimes I actually stop singing it and just let them sing it. “It doesn’t have to be fresh for us, the audience gets into it so much that we love playing it for them,” Score said. To his surprise, it became the band’s career song, but he doesn’t get tired of playing it. … The guitar part just came from ‘we have a gap here, we need to do something interesting, so let’s do the spacey thing and have it go ‘jank jank jank’ down the line.'” “When we went back to rehearse, that was on my mind, so I just started to develop a story about that picture. “We were looking for a record deal and went to a local record label in Liverpool and they had a picture on the wall of two people running away from a flying saucer,” Score said. Of course, the album’s biggest hit was “I Ran (So Far Away),” which was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV. … When it won a Grammy, I basically said, ‘Does that mean I’m a lousy singer?’ Because we didn’t get a Grammy for what I sang, you know?” was a big subject in the medical field then, so for us, it was like, man, we’re right on top of it here. “When we did it, we went, ‘Two chords, D and A, so let’s call it ‘D.N.A.,'” Score said. ![]() Sporting uniquely futuristic hair and fashion style, the new-wave band released its self-titled debut album “A Flock of Seagulls” (1982), featuring the Grammy-winning instrumental song “D.N.A.” ![]() … It kind of came about in an accidental way because I had a ‘Ziggy Stardust’, but Frank, our original bass player, put his hand on top of that and it all collapsed down the front.” Although I was outrageous, I was also very shy, so the front bit helped to cover up my eyes so I wasn’t getting stared at. “On TV, spacemen had aerials coming out of their head, so that’s what I was emulating. “When I was a kid I wanted to be a spaceman,” Score said. ![]() How did he come up with his own unique hairdo with the middle combed down and the sides sticking up? “I started out hairdressing and it was the punk period, so I ended up doing a lot of guys and girls who were in punk bands or went to punk shows, so in my hairdressing shop, they’d come in on a Friday after working in their office and be like, ‘Punk me up, I’m going out tonight,'” Score said. Of course, people come for the hits, then we play them what we call ‘future hits,’ some new songs, some songs that have been rearranged or changed differently.”īorn in Beverley, England in 1957, Score started out as a hairdresser in Liverpool before forming A Flock of Seagulls in 1979 with his brother Ali Score on drums, Frank Maudsley on bass and Paul Reynolds on guitar. “It’s still as much fun now as it ever was, so we don’t intend to stop anytime soon,” Frontman Mike Score told WTOP. (Courtesy Live Nation)It’s time for a Throwback Thursday with an ’80s new-wave band bringing live nostalgia to our area this weekend.Ī Flock of Seagulls performs live at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland on Saturday night at 8 p.m. Mike Score brings A Flock of Seagulls to The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland. ![]() Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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