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. 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.
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