History Music / AFlockOfSeagulls

* TitleOnlyChorus: "The Story Of A Young Heart".

Hairdresser Mike Score (lead vocals, keyboards) formed the NewRomantic band A Flock of Seagulls with his brother Ali (drums) and fellow hairdresser Frank Maudsley (bass) in 1980, adding guitarist Paul Reynolds several months later. The group released its debut EP on [[Music/BeBopDeluxe Bill Nelson]]'s Cocteau Records early in 1981, and while the record failed to chart, its lead track, "Telecommunication," became an underground hit in Euro-disco and new wave clubs. The band signed a major-label contract with Jive by the end of the year, and their eponymous debut album appeared in the spring of 1982. "I Ran (So Far Away)" was released as the first single from the album, and MTV quickly picked up on its icily attractive video, which featured long shots of Mike Score and his distinctive, cascading hair. The single climbed into the American Top Ten, taking the album along with it. In the U.K., "I Ran" didn't make the Top 40, but "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" reached number ten later that year; in America, that single became a Top 40 hit in 1983, after "Space Age Love Song" peaked at number 30. "Wishing" was taken from the group's second album, Listen (1983), which was moderately successful.

Mike Score's distinctive hairstyle, dubbed "the flock of seagulls" hairdo has been mentioned, copied, and parodied many times in the media even though the hairdo first appeared in Film/{{Xanadu|1980}} with the band The Tubes.

[[caption-width-right:350:The original lineup.]]

Mike Score's distinctive hairstyle, dubbed "the flock of seagulls" hairdo has been mentioned, copied, and parodied many times in the media even though the hairdo first appeared in Film/{{Xanadu}} with the band The Tubes.

* HallOfMirrors: The "I Ran" video is set in one. [[SpecialEffectsFailure You can even see the camera in some of them]].

* OneWordTitle: The album ''Listen'', plus "Telecommunication", "Messages", "Tokyo", "Windows", "Nightmares", "Electrics", "Rosenmontag", "Committed", "Rainfall", "Magic"

* {{Instrumentals}}: Quite a few in their lineup: "D.N.A.", "2:30", "Rosenmontag", "The Last Flight Of Yuri Gagarin", "The Light At The End Of The World", and "Seven Seas".