And, although the second single was a great slice of pop heaven, for some reason it never hit with radio programmers. Additionally, that famous hair design was not in sight in the publicity photo on the back of the album cover.īut, when the band’s second single, “Space Age Love Song” was released, the haircut was in the video in all of its glory.
Instead, he was sporting a somewhat normal punk rock tussled coif.
Ironically, in the “I Ran” video, Mike Score did not wear his famous hair design. It was a heady time for these four ambitious lads from England. And, that first single, “I Ran”, became the band’s only Top 10 hit song, while their album, a watered-down version of the New Romantic sound popular across the pond, also rose into the Top 10 on the Album Chart. However, they did have two videos from their 1982 self-titled debut album ready to run on MTV here in the States. Still, for a very short moment, the band, A Flock of Seagulls, were hit with the youth of America.įrom the beginning, A Flock of Seagulls never really made much of an inroad in their native UK. Shoot, even Millennials think that haircut must have been worn by everyone (for the record, it was not).
LEAD SINGER FROM FLOCK OF SEAGULLS HAIR CRACK
But, with the Eighties, when much serious crap was occurring such as Iran-Contra, the Iranian Hostage situation, gang wars, the Crack and AIDS epidemics and Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman’s initial influence upon society, we have wrapped up the whole Eighties in one image: the silly haircut of A Flock of Seagulls lead singer Score. When we all think of the Nineties, many memories are wrapped up into images from Lollapalooza. For what reason, the images of the “hippies” at Woodstock are that image of the Sixties, while the Seventies are all bottled up into John Travolta’s white leisure suit from Saturday Night Fever. Their biggest hit was “I Ran (So Far Away)” in 1982.ĬNN’s Jane Caffrey contributed to this report.It’s almost crazy how society can distill a whole decade’s worth of pop culture into one iconic image. The music “was just about ready to go” when it disappeared with the van, he said.Ī reconstituted version of the 1980s English New Wave band has been playing gigs with co-founder Score as the only original member. While equipment is replaceable, Score is especially anxious about a hard drive that contained songs for his upcoming solo album. Southern California guitar stores have lists of the stolen gear in case someone tries to fence it there, he said. “The word, though, is out and we have lots of other band members scouring eBay and Craigslist for signs of the equipment,” Score said. Investigators are searching for fingerprints and other clues on the vehicle. The van was empty,” he told CNN Wednesday. “The van itself was found, but all the gear was taken. While the singer’s signature floppy hair was lost years ago, Score’s keyboards, guitars, drums, mics and clothing disappeared last weekend when a thief took the band’s van from in front of a hotel in Downey, California, Score said. A Flock of Seagulls’ friends and fans are watching Craigslist, eBay and pawn shops for band leader Mike Score’s stolen amps and instruments.
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