The group released their debut single " (It's Not Me) Talking", on Bill Nelson's Cocteau label. Eventually, under the management of Harry Maguire, Tommy Crossan, and Mick Rossi, all directors of Checkmount Limited, they began to release singles through Jive Records. They recorded sessions for John Peel's show on BBC Radio 1 in May 1981. The band practised above Mike Score's hair salon, and then started playing clubs, eventually signing a recording contract. Soon afterwards, Edmondson departed to make way for a returning Ali, while teenager Paul Reynolds, a close friend of Edmondson, replaced Woo at the behest of Maudsley, thus creating the band's classic line-up. Guitarist Willie Woo was added, while Mark Edmondson replaced Ali on drums when the Score brothers fell out. The original line-up of the band featured Mike on lead vocals and keyboards, Ali Score on drums, and Frank Maudsley on bass. According to Mike Score, the band's name was taken from the song "Toiler on the Sea" by punk rock band the Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. History 1979–1986: Formation and mainstream success Ī Flock of Seagulls were started by Mike Score in late 1979 in Liverpool. In 2021, the original lineup once again reunited temporarily to record another album with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra entitled String Theory. In 2018, the members of the original lineup came together to record an album with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra entitled Ascension. The band won a Grammy Award in 1983 for their instrumental " D.N.A." (1982). Their video for "I Ran (So Far Away)" received airplay on MTV during the Second British Invasion.
The group had a string of international hit singles including " I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982), " Space Age Love Song" (1982), " Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (1982), and " The More You Live, the More You Love" (1984). The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s. A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979.
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