![]() ![]() The Grammy Blade refers to was for Best Rock Instrumental for the track “D.N.A.,” from the band’s 1982 self-titled debut. But that ‘waterfall’ ’do, as Mike calls, it stole the show.” “Most people forget they won a Grammy in 1982 and scored a series of big hits. “Their look overpowered their music,” says Richard Blade, a KROQ DJ during the band’s ’80s heyday, who now hosts the Flashback Lunch of sister station Jack-FM. ![]() The band performs Saturday at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank.Īlthough the group has been the butt of New Wave jokes for years, in retrospect, Seagulls - as Score tends to refer to them - did earn their fair share of accolades back in the day. The hair is gone - Score now shaves his head - and he is the band’s lone original member, but the songs remain the same. Thirty-three years after “I Ran (So Far Away),” the band’s biggest hit, broke into the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100, A Flock of Seagulls is still at it. Then there was the music, a bouncy and incessantly upbeat mix of atmospheric guitars and hooky synthesizer lines, a 180-degree contrast to the doom and gloom of much of the post-punk crowd. First and foremost there was that hair - an extreme blond version of Eddie Munster’s ’do, falling into singer/keyboardist Mike Score’s face, topped by a set of gull wings that made his head look like it was ready for takeoff. When one flashes back to some of the cheesiest aspects of the ’80s music scene, A Flock of Seagulls undoubtedly comes to mind. ![]()
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