Fun Boy Three
From Rex Brough and Wikipedia
Following a split from the Specials, the Fun Boy Three had many hit singles before splitting up in 1983.
Terry Hall - Vocals. Neville Staples - Vocals. Lynval Golding - Vocals, Guitar
Singles
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum / Faith Hope and Charity - 1981
It Ain't What You Do / The Funrama Theme - 1981 (with Bananarama)
The Telephone Always Rings / The Alibi - 1982
Summertime / Summer of 82 - 1982
Tunnel Of Love / The Lunacy Legacy - 1983
Our Lips Are Sealed
The More I See - 1983
He Was Really Saying Something - Bananarama & Fun Boy Three -
Albums
The Fun Boy Three - 1982
Waiting
From Wikipedia
"They dispensed with the darker, moody sound and demeanor which they and Jerry Dammers had crafted with great success in the ska revival of the late 1970s and went into a much brighter, poppier phase with this new band, though maintaining savagery and wit within the lyrics and Hall's wholly expressionless persona.
Together, they set about making music which covered a variety of genres. The band enjoyed six UK Top 20 hits, including "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" and "Tunnel of Love" and created two albums of which the eponymous Fun Boy Three was the most successful.
The trio's last UK hit was "Our Lips Are Sealed" from the album Waiting, co-written by Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go's, who had scored a U.S. hit with the song a year earlier. They then toured the United States and split afterwards.
They were also credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of Bananarama, whom Hall first saw in The Face magazine. The three women provided credited chorus vocals on the hit "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"; the Fun Boy Three later sang on the Bananarama song "Really Saying Something"
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