I was working in Wisconsin that summer but could not take time off to go to a New Wave blow-out that marked the beginning of the Synchronicity Tour for The Police. Unfortunately, A Flock of Seagulls one great single from that sophomore album, “Wishing (A Photograph of You)” was never really given a chance and quickly fade from our collective memory, which is a shame since that song was by far their best musical statement.īut, before the band’s music faded from our memory leaving us with one of the strangest hair cuts of all time, the band did take part in a major MTV-backed concert that took place in Chicago at old Comiskey Park, during the Summer of 1983. So, “Space Age Love Song” stalled in the twenties on Billboard‘s Hot 100 and faded from our memories save for one thing: The Haircut.īy the time the band recorded there follow-up album, the public was in the midst of Michael Jackson mania, a fascination with Duran Duran, a beginning obsession with Prince, a love of a cross-dressing queen in Culture Club and the sophisticated rock music of The Police. 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).
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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. It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween, and if your friends would understand the reference, $20 is a totally reasonable cost to dominate any costume party, so get a wig for yourself here.It’s almost crazy how society can distill a whole decade’s worth of pop culture into one iconic image. Sadly, Score wasn’t rocking his signature hair in that video, so here’s “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” for your viewing pleasure: The wig is selling for just $20, and it “will fit most adults.” For the young’uns among is who don’t quite know who A Flock of Seagulls are, it’s likely you’ve come across “I Ran” before: The accuracy does come with a caveat, though: The same reviewer said that “a lot of people will ask to take pictures with you so be warned.” The artificial do is totally convincing: One reviewer wrote that he wore the wig to an A Flock of Seagulls concert, and said that people “lost their minds when they saw” it and thought it was his real hair. But now, the struggle is over, as has won the battle with their Mike Score wig ( via Dangerous Minds), which looks absolutely amazing: File this one under products that arrived 35 years too late, but are still too wonderful to avoid today: In the early 80s, new wave/synthpop group A Flock of Seagulls set the game ablaze with both their upbeat hits and lead singer Mike Score’s upright hair, with its iconic styling of wings on the side and a pronounced downward swoop in the middle.īack in the day, many tried and failed to emulate the style: It’s hard, and there’s a lot of hair product used in this fight against gravity.
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