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You Are Listening To "I Ran" By A Flock Of Seagulls

A Flock of Seagulls: The year was 1983 and just prior to leaving for an overseas tour, British singer Mike Score had a date with a lady, who, during their date produced a photograph of herself. As the story goes, Mike asked her for it and she refused. Mike left disappointed, but with the inspiration to write the song "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)". The song was a major hit in Europe and the US where it reached the top rungs on the charts, adding to the band's newly acquired fame. If you remember "Wishing" then you know how contrasting it was to the other songs of the time. Heavy with synthesizer and electronic rhythm, light guitar riffs - all together melodic, and like no one else - these were the sounds that epitomized the music of A Flock of Seagulls. Taking the name A Flock of Seagulls, inspired from the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, the band started out playing shows in small venues in the early 80's. Club goers loved the driving electronic beat of "Telecommunications" which became a dance club hit across England. People would forever come to remember the sight of the band - particularly Mike Score - singing, playing his synthesizer, and sporting a most unusual haircut of which his long blonde, heavily gelled, bang would cascade down over his forehead and eyebrows like a waterfall.

With the waterfall haircut and more, their music, so electronic yet melodic and charged with emotion, AFOS soon became one of the darlings of the music industry. After signing a record contract and touring in the US, in 1982 they released their first album - self titled - "A Flock of Seagulls". To their swelling ranks of fans in the US, UK, and across Europe, the album was magical. "I Ran" - the first single - is a song about being abducted by a UFO which came into the houses of many young Americans when MTV (then in its infancy) played it over and over and over. In it, the band plays in a room decorated with aluminum foil as the camera pans around and around. The video was simplistic but the futuristic images, sight of the band, and the superior music drove "I Ran" to a top ten ranking all over the world. Ironically, AFOS became forever known for "I Ran", but the first album spawned two more top 30 hits. "Space Age Love Song" is a song touching all the emotions of someone falling in love and "DNA" won a GRAMMY for best rock instrumental. "You Can Run" and "Don't Ask Me" were big alternative Top 40 rock hits as well. The songs have futuristic themes and upbeat, melodic music - all of which became the hallmark of A Flock of Seagulls.

After more touring and enjoying the success of "A Flock of Seagulls", the second album "Listen" was released in 1983. "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" was the feature song and major hit single from the album and charted in the top 10 on the singles chart. Its video on MTV aired continuously, with Mike Score and his waterfall haircut wishing he had that photograph. Other songs on "Listen" seem to rely even more on futuristic and techno themes, with more upbeat music. The follow-up, "Nightmares" also hit the top 40 and was the other charted single.

In 1984, Mike dropped his waterfall haircut and AFOS released their third album "The Story of a Young Heart". The top 20 single, "The More You Live, The More You Love", was the only hit from that album, and was to be the last AFOS single to chart inside the Top 40 on worldwide singles charts. AFOS released "Dream Come True" in 1986. The music was so foreign to anything AFOS released before and never found the numbers of fans their first three albums did. After a three-year hiatus, Mike Score kept the name alive, added other musicians and released the single "Magic" a song reminiscent in sound and intensity of A Flock of Seagulls' earlier days. Newer younger musicians came and went, but Mike Score continued to tour throughout much of the 1990's and released "Light at the End of the World" in 1995. AFOS continue to perform over 80 shows a year, playing all their charted hits and album tracks for fans the world over.

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