VIDEO: “The More You Live, The More You Love” – A Flock of Seagulls VIDEO: “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” – A Flock of Seagulls Despite that, A Flock of Seagulls - with personnel moving in and out of the band except for Mike Score - continued to tour, the success of the band’s heyday years still resonating with fans.Ģ018 has seen a renaissance of sorts for A Flock Of Seagulls with the release of Ascension, the first studio record since 1984 featuring the original line-up of the band, with Mike Score reunited with the other three original members (Ali Score, Frank Maudsley, and Paul Reynolds) to re-record the band’s more notable songs - this time with the backing of the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
After the band’s second album Listen, subsequent studio releases The Story Of A Young Heart (1984), Dream Come True (1986), and The Light At The End Of The World (1996) failed to produce any hit singles. In short, it was brilliant.”īrilliant but short-lived. “Touring was real fun but really exhausting - flying, driving, interviews, meeting people. “During the 1980s, band life was pretty hectic,” Score says. VIDEO: “Space Age Love Song” – A Flock of Seagulls Sandwiched in between was “D.N.A.”, an instrumental track that won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
“I Ran (So Far Away)” from the band’s self-titled debut album remains the song A Flock of Seagull is best known for, but Score et al’s success was heightened by the subsequent singles “Space Age Love Song” and “Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)” - both released in 1982 - and 1984’s “The More You Live, The More You Love”. We certainly didn’t want to sound like other bands yet we took influences from them.” We had loads of ideas - a lot that didn’t work out but paved the way for other songs, and some songs just wrote themselves.
“We wanted to be very sonic with great highs and lows be rocky yet robotic,” recalls Score in a January 2018 interview with “We wanted to be diverse like The Beatles but recognizable as our own band. The touring line-up of A Flock of Seagulls in February 2017, with Kevin Rankin, Lucio Rubino, Joe Rodriguez, and original member Mike Score. concert, sponsored by, is free.įounded close to 40 years ago by Score in Liverpool, England - his brother Ali along with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds formed was is still referred to as the band’s classic lineup - A Flock of Seagulls capitalized on the video-fueled New Wave pop music explosion of the early 1980s.Ĭome 1982, with the single “I Ran (So Far Away)” a worldwide hit, the band’s strange name - inspired by a lyric from the 1978 song “Toiler on the Sea” by The Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull - was on the lips of pop music fans around the globe.
While the band members’ bizarrely teased hairstyles are long gone - three of the four founding members are now bald - the band is still very much with us, as will be evidenced on Wednesday, July 11th at Del Crary Park as Peterborough Musicfest presents A Flock of Seagulls featuring co-founder Mike Score. There’s no public parking at Del Crary Park, but there’s neighborhood street parking nearby and ample parking in downtown Peterborough. VIP seating available for Sponsors and Fest Friends. N., Peterborough)īring your own lawn chairs or blankets (lawn chairs are available to rent for $4/chair).