The Flying Lizards
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The Flying Lizards were a British experimental rock group that recorded several albums. Formed by and led by David Cunningham, the group included avant-garde and free improvising musicians like David Toop and Steve Beresford as instrumentalists and Deborah Evans and Patti Palladin as main vocalists. It also boasted the late Michael Upton.
The group released an album titled The Flying Lizards in 1979; their singles include postmodern cover versions of songs such as Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" (1978) and James Brown's "Sex Machine" (1984), as well as several originals. Their album Top Ten consists entirely of covers, done in a deliberately emotionless, harsh and robotic style. Their version of Barrett Strong's "Money" remains popular, and is used in the films The Wedding Singer, Empire Records, Charlie's Angels and Lord of War, and also in the series Nip Tuck.
After the band's break-up, a posthumous album of dub instrumentals, The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards, appeared.
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[edit] Members
- David Toop
- Steve Beresford
- Deborah Evans
- Patti Palladin
- Michael Upton
- David Cunningham
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- The Flying Lizards (Virgin Records, 1980)
- Fourth Wall (Virgin, 1981)
- Top Ten (Statik, 1984)
- The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards (Piano Records, 1996)
[edit] Singles
- Summertime Blues (Virgin VS230, 1978)
- Money (Virgin VS276, 1979)
- TV (Virgin VS325, 1979)
- The Laughing Policeman (under the pseudonym "The Suspicions," Arista 361, 1980)
- Move On Up (Virgin VS381, 1981)
- Hands 2 take (Virgin VS392, 1981)
- Lovers and Other Strangers (Virgin VS421, 1981)
- Sex Machine (Statik tak19, 1984)
- Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Satik tak25, 1984)
