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). ![]() ![]() 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 almost crazy how society can distill a whole decade’s worth of pop culture into one iconic image.
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