Singer Mike Score of Flock Of Seagulls as he is today (Image: Jason Kempin/Getty Images) “Because here we are 30 years later and we are still talking about it. “But then you see Ben Stiller name-checking us or Peter in Family Guy with a similar haircut, I look back and think, ‘What a genius stroke to do that hairdo’. Mike said: “Towards the end of the original band, a lot of people slagged us off because we had such a strong image. They were serious but everyone else was laughing at them. They may have sung about the future that we are now living but their image always went before them. To go with his outrageous hairstyle, the music was all sci-fi about alien invasion and songs with titles such as Modern Love is Automatic, D.N.A. They were looking for a new thing that wasn’t a 70s supergroup.” “I think that’s why we took off in America so well. “Most Americans had the idea that English bands were just limp-wristed and not into lead guitar-style but we went over and showed we really could do that kind of stuff with power. He said: “We were one of the first bands of that era to go to America and play. And Mike doesn’t think it was all about the image, although he concedes the new music channel MTV helped. While Duran Duran and Culture Club broke America, the Gulls were one of only a few Brit bands from the 80s to actually make any mark Stateside. The single I Ran (So Far Away) went to No1 in Australia and Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) topped the charts in France. Their 1982 self-titled debut album went to No10 in America and they won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1983 for D.N.A. Seen as a band to laugh at, the Liverpool-based Gulls were one of the UK’s big breakthrough outfits. We had a crazy image and our music was upbeat rather than dark and gloomy.” “That’s what people liked about the band. “But I’d love to have a wig made like the haircut I had in the 80s and play these hits like Wishing then pull it off at the end.
The former hairdresser from Beverley, Yorkshire, said: “I basically shave my head now and people still come up and ask, ‘Are you going to do your hair tonight?’ and I say, ‘What do you think?’ If you haven’t followed the band since the 80s, we have a secret – Mike doesn’t have ANY hair any more. Pulp Fiction, Family Guy, Friends, Austin Powers, The Wedding Singer and Ben Stiller’s The Suburbans last year all have name-checked it or the band.Īs Mike, 55, prepares to fly to Scotland next weekend for the Rewind Festival, he laughed: “I think that haircut owns me, I don’t own it.” No other haircut has been name-checked so often in popular fiction. Only the hairstyles of Twiggy or Jennifer Aniston have been talked about so much. The most iconic haircut of the 80s came courtesy of Mike Score, the lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls. YOU can argue that Kajagoogoo star Limahl’s hedgehog mullet or The Human League frontman Phil Oakey’s lopsided look were the big haircuts of the 80s.īut you are wrong.
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