Fun Boy Three
Fun Boy Three | |
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Background information | |
Origin | United Kingdom |
Genres | |
Years active | 1981 | –1983
Labels | Chrysalis |
Spinoff of | The Specials |
Past members |
Fun Boy Three were an English new wave pop[1] band, active from 1981 to 1983 and formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left the Specials. They released two albums and had seven UK top 20 hits.
History
Fun Boy Three reduced the
Tunnel of Love" and "Our Lips Are Sealed".[3] They created two albums of which the eponymous debut was the more successful. The follow-up album Waiting, produced by David Byrne, was well-received critically.[4][5][6]
Following the trio's last UK hit "Our Lips Are Sealed", co-written by Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's, who had a U.S. hit with the song a year earlier, they then toured the United States and split afterwards.[citation needed]
They were credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of
Really Saying Something", both reaching the top 5 in the UK.[3]
Discography
Fun Boy Three discography | |
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Studio albums | 2 |
Live albums | 1 |
Compilation albums | 3 |
Singles | 9 |
Studio albums
Title | Details | Chart positions | sales thresholds )
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UK [7][8] |
AUS [9] |
NL [10] |
NZ [11] |
US | |||
The Fun Boy Three |
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7 | 84 | 10 | 17 | — | |
Waiting |
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14 | — | 47 | 11 | 104 |
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"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Live albums
Title | Details |
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Live on the Test |
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Compilation albums
Title | Details |
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The Best of Fun Boy Three |
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Really Saying Something: The Best of Fun Boy |
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The Complete Fun Boy Three |
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Singles
Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
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AUS [9] |
IRL [15] |
NL
[10] |
NZ
[11] |
US Club Play
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1981 | "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" | 20 | 43 | 28 | — | 46 | — | Fun Boy Three | |
1982 | " It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (Fun Boy Three with Bananarama )
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4[7] | 55 | 5 | 3 | 37 | 49 |
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"Really Saying Something" (Bananarama with Fun Boy Three) | 5[7] | 74 | 9 | 16 | — | 16 |
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Deep Sea Skiving (Bananarama album) | |
"The Telephone Always Rings" | 17 | — | 29 | 49 | — | — | Fun Boy Three | ||
"Summertime" | 18 | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | ||
"The More I See (The Less I Believe)" | 68 | — | — | — | — | — | Waiting | ||
1983 | " The Tunnel of Love "
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10 | — | 14 | 38 | — | — | ||
"Our Lips Are Sealed" | 7 | — | 13 | — | — | — | |||
"The Farm Yard Connection" (Germany only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
References
- ^ a b Fun Boy Three Allmusic bio
- ^ Green, Jim & Robbins, Ira "Fun Boy Three", Trouser Press, retrieved 27 January 2010
- ^ a b "Fun Boy Three". Official Charts.
- Allmusic
- ^ Fun Boy Three from Christgau's website
- ^ Robert Palmer (10 August 1983). "The Pop Life". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Fun Boy Three | Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b "charts.org.nz - Discografie Fun Boy Three". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b "charts.nz - Discography Fun Boy Three". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ^ "Albums in the Year 1982". © 2007-9, Steve Hawtin et al. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ^ a b c "British certificates: searchable database". bpi.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "The Irish Charts". IRMA 2006 - 2008. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
External links
- Fun Boy Three discography at Discogs
- Fun Boy Three at IMDb
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