The Flying Lizards is a group of Rock of Avant-garde English credit of 1979 with 1984.

Biography

The first album of the group entitled The Flying Lizards left in 1979 and included/understood resumptions of standards of the rock'n'roll ( Money , Summertime Blues of Eddie Cochran) and several original compositions. Money , taken again song of Barrett Strong is regularly used by the tévision or the cinema (for example in Nip/Tuck , Lord off War , Charlie' S Angels ). Their second album Fourth wall contains the famous resumption of Curtis Mayfield Move one up . Top Ten is their third opus, only made up of recoveries (whose sulfurous version of James Brown Sex Machine ), the group still accentuated the dimension désaffectivée, minimalist and robotized of their music. The group stopped its activities about the middle of the Eighties. A last album of Dub S was born later several years.

Composition of the group

• David Toop
• Steve Beresford
• Deborah Evans
• Patti Palladin
• Michael Upton
• David Cunningham

Discography

45 Turns

• Summertime blues - virgin VS230, 1978
• Money - virgin VS276, 1979
• TV - virgin VS325, 1979
• The laughing police officers (under the Pseudonym “The suspicions”) - arista 361,1980
• Move one up - virgin VS381, 1981
• Hands 2 take - virgin VS392, 1981
• Lovers and other strangers - virgin VS421, 1981
• Sex machine - statik tak19, 1984
• Dizzy miss lizzie - statik tak25, 1984

albums

• The flying lizards - virgin V2150, 1980 (CD: VJCP 17501 toshiba-EMI)
• Fourth wall - virgin V2190, 1981 (CD: VJCP 17502 toshiba-EMI)
• Signal ten - statik LP20, 1984
• secret The dub life off the flying lizards - piano 501,1996

External bonds

• Discography detailed and with accompanying notes by David Cunningham
• Site on the aec group of many texts

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