The Flying Lizards
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Biography
[Edit]The Flying Lizards are remembered by most listeners as new wave one-hit wonders thanks to their deliberately eccentric cover of Barrett Strong's "Money," which became a surprise chart success in 1979. But the Flying Lizards were in fact the brainchild of David Cunningham, a well-respected avant-garde composer, producer, and visual artist, and it became one of the first salvos in a long and fascinating career. Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954, and once told a reporter he first took up music in school as a way of avoiding playing rugby with his schoolmates. Cunningham later developed a keen interest in both music and visual art, and he left Ireland when he was accepted at the Maidstone College of Art in Canterbury, Kent, where he studied film and video installation. While in school, Cunningham began doing live sound for rock bands playing on campus, which led to an interest in recording and music production.
In 1975, Cunningham self-released an album of minimalist music, Grey Scale, and using borrowed gear he recorded a deliberately harsh and minimal version of the old Eddie Cochran hit "Summertime Blues," with art school chum Deborah Evans contributing flat, tuneless vocals. Cunningham claims the low-tech single cost just 20 pounds to make, and after it was turned down by a number of labels, Virgin Records picked it up for release in 1978, under the assumption that it was inexpensive enough to recoup its costs quickly. Released under the name the Flying Lizards, "Summertime Blues" attracted enough press attention to sell a few thousand copies, putting the project solidly in the black, and Cunningham decided to take another stab at reconfigured pop. With its clanking prepared piano, crashing percussion sounds (a combination of tambourine and snare drum), and another monotonic vocal by Evans, "Money" was considerably more manic than "Summertime Blues," through the recording budget was similarly cheap, and the single became an unexpected chart hit both in Europe and the United States.
Cunningham's deal with Virgin was for only two singles, but with "Money" climbing the charts, they signed him to a new contract, and the Flying Lizards' first album soon followed, which featured dub-style audio experiments with improvisational musicians Steve Beresford and David Toop, and bent interpretations of pop music constructs along with the two freak hit singles. The album sold just well enough to justify Virgin financing another Flying Lizards LP, but 1981's Fourth Wall put its focus on the eclectic experimentalism of Cunningham's music, and despite the presence of another bent cover of a pop classic (in this case Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up") and contributions from Robert Fripp, Patti Palladin, and Michael Nyman, the album was a commercial disappointment though it received strong reviews.
By this time, Cunningham was devoting much of his time to producing other artists (including This Heat and Wayne County), and after releasing 1984's Top Ten — which combined Cunningham's eccentric take on pop with sleek electronic textures and the vocals of Sally Peterson — Cunningham retired the Flying Lizards. Since then, he's continued to create multimedia installations, produced a number of Michael Nyman's film scores, staged improvised performances with other visionary musical artists, and composed music for film, television, and dance projects. An unreleased dub music project from 1979, in which Cunningham reworked recordings by Jah Lloyd, received a belated release in 1995 as The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards.
Title: Secret Dub Life
Artist: The Flying Lizards
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Post Punk
Title: The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards
Artist: The Flying Lizards
Genre: Electronica, Rock, New Wave, Dancefloor, Reggae, Dance Pop, Alternative
Title: The Flying Lizards
Artist: The Flying Lizards
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Dancefloor, Dance Pop, Alternative
Collections
Title: Viva Rock Vegas
Genre: Rock
Title: 100 Jahre Einsamkeit: Markus Detmer Plays Staubgold
Genre: Electronica, Jazz, Rock, Dancefloor, World Music, Dance Pop
Title: Balearic Rock
Genre: Rock
Title: Guilty Pleasures
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock 80'S Vol 1
Title: Rock 80'S Vol 3
Title: Best Of The 70'S CD 3
Genre: Pop
Title: 101 Movie Songs CD1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: 101 Housework Songs (AU Edition) (CD 5)
Genre: Pop
Title: 101 One Hit Wonders
Genre: Pop
Title: DJ - Kicks: Playgroup
Genre: Electronica, House
Title: Sounds Of The The 70s - 1979 (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Pure... Alternative 80s (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Punk Anthems... Ever! (CD2)
Genre: Punk
Title: Electronic Music Hits 80s (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: One Hit Wonders - 1979-82 (CD6)
Genre: Pop
Title: New Gold Dreams (CD1)
Title: Let's Get Loud (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Hits: Punk & New Wave, (CD2)
Genre: Avant Garde Jazz, Avant Garde Metal
Title: Dancing Under The Covers
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Fuse Presents Hell
Title: New Wave: Gold (CD1)
Title: Synth Pop (CD1)
Genre: Synth Pop
Title: New Wave Hits Of The 80s Vol. 01
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Synth Pop, Alternative, Indie
Title: Alle 40 Goed New Wave Classics (CD1)
Genre: New Wave
Title: 70s And 80s Together Synths (CD2)
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Rock & Roll, Synth Pop, Funk
Title: Top Of The Pops - New Wave (CD3)
Genre: Rock, Gothic Rock, New Wave, Power Pop, Post Punk, Alternative
Title: 101 Jukebox Hits (CD3)
Title: 101 Jukebox Classics 5CD (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel, World Music, Country, Western Swing, Funk, Folk, Easy Listening
Title: NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 70s (Box Set, 5 CD) (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: The # 1: Super 70s Pop (CD3)
Title: Dance-Punk Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Dancefloor, Disco, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Mastermix Classic Cuts 045 - Punk New Wave
Genre: Pop
Title: Now Yearbook 79 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop, Alternative
Title: Now That's What I Call 12 " 70s 2022 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Music For New Romantics 2022 (CD2)
Genre: Electronica