The Flying Lizards
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The Flying Lizards were a British experimental rock group that recorded several albums.
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[edit] Career
Formed by and led by David Cunningham, the group included avant-garde and free improvising musicians, such as David Toop and Steve Beresford as instrumentalists, plus Deborah Evans and Patti Palladin as main vocalists. It also boasted Michael Upton.
The group released an album entitled The Flying Lizards in 1979; their singles include the postmodern cover versions of songs such as Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" (1978) and James Brown's "Sex Machine" (1984), as well as several originals. Their album Top Ten consists entirely of covers, done in a deliberately emotionless, harsh and robotic style. Their version of Barrett Strong's "Money" remains popular, and was used in the film soundtracks for The Wedding Singer, Empire Records, Charlie's Angels and Lord of War, as well as in the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama, Nip/Tuck.
After the band's break-up, a "posthumous album" of dub instrumentals, The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards, appeared.
[edit] Band members
- David Toop
- Steve Beresford
- Michael Upton
- David Cunningham
- Deborah Evans-Stickland
- Patti Palladin
- Peter Laurence Gordon (born 20 June 1951)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- The Flying Lizards (Virgin Records, 1980)
- Fourth Wall (Virgin, 1981)
- Top Ten (Statik, 1984)
- The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards (Piano Records, 1996)
[edit] Singles
- "Summertime Blues" (Virgin VS230, 1978)
- "Money" (Virgin VS276, 1979) reached no. 50 in the US chart
- "TV" (Virgin VS325, 1979)
- "The Laughing Policeman" (under the pseudonym "The Suspicions," Arista 361, 1980)
- "Move On Up" (Virgin VS381, 1981)
- "Hands 2 Take" (Virgin VS392, 1981)
- "Lovers and Other Strangers" (Virgin VS421, 1981)
- "Sex Machine" (Statik tak19, 1984)
- "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Satik tak25, 1984)
