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The Flying Lizards

Index The Flying Lizards

The Flying Lizards were an experimental English new wave band, formed in 1976. [1]

61 relations: Arista Records, Ashes to Ashes (TV series), Avant-garde, Barrett Strong, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Charlie's Angels (2000 film), Cover version, David Cunningham (musician), David Toop, Dizzy, Miss Lizzy, Dub music, Eddie Cochran, Emmy Award, Empire Records, Film, Fourth Wall (album), Free improvisation, Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Golden Globe Award, Instrumental, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, Life on Mars (UK TV series), List of new wave artists, List of performers on Top of the Pops, List of post-punk bands, Lord of War, Marshall Hain, McFarland & Company, Michael Nyman, Michael Upton, Money (That's What I Want), Move On Up, New wave music, Nip/Tuck, NME, Peter Gordon (composer), Post-punk, Postmodernism, Pseudonym, Record chart, Record producer, Recording contract, Robert Fripp, Singing, Sloane Ranger, Soundtrack, Steve Beresford, Summertime Blues, ..., Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song), Taco Bell, The Flying Lizards (album), The Laughing Policeman (song), The Wedding Singer, Top 40, Top of the Pops, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Virgin Records, Vivien Goldman. Expand index (11 more) »

Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Ashes to Ashes (TV series)

Ashes to Ashes is a British crime drama and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Barrett Strong

Barrett Strong (born February 5, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Charlie's Angels (2000 film)

Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film that is based on the television series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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David Cunningham (musician)

David Cunningham (born 20 December 1954) is an Irish composer and music producer.

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David Toop

David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, and professor and chair of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication.

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Dizzy, Miss Lizzy

"Dizzy, Miss Lizzy" is a rock and roll song written and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Eddie Cochran

Edward Raymond Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American musician.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Empire Records

Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fourth Wall (album)

Fourth Wall is the second studio album by English rock band The Flying Lizards, released in 1981 by record label Virgin.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

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Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a song recorded by James Brown with Bobby Byrd on backing vocals.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Life on Mars (UK TV series)

Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.

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List of new wave artists

The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s.

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List of performers on Top of the Pops

This list of performers on Top of the Pops includes popular music recording artists and musical ensembles who have performed on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK singles chart.

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List of post-punk bands

The following is a list of post-punk bands.

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Lord of War

Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama war film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, and co-produced by and starring Nicolas Cage.

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Marshall Hain

Marshall Hain were a British pop-rock duo, well known for their 1978 hit "Dancing In The City", a UK 3 single in the UK Singles Chart in the summer of 1978.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.

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Michael Upton

Michael Upton (1938–2002) was a British painter.

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Money (That's What I Want)

"Money (That's What I Want)" is a song written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford that became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise.

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Move On Up

"Move On Up" is a song by Curtis Mayfield from his 1970 debut album Curtis.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nip/Tuck

Nip/Tuck is an American medical drama television series created by Ryan Murphy that aired on FX in the United States from July 22, 2003 to March 3, 2010.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Peter Gordon (composer)

Peter Gordon (born June 20, 1951, New York City) is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music has influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sloane Ranger

In the United Kingdom, a Sloanie (or occasionally a Sloane Ranger) is a stereotypical young upper-middle or upper class person who pursues a distinctive fashionable lifestyle.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Steve Beresford

Steve Beresford (born 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York.

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Summertime Blues

"Summertime Blues" is a song co-written and recorded by American rockabilly artist Eddie Cochran.

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Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song)

"Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s.

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Taco Bell

Taco Bell is an American chain of fast food restaurants based out of Irvine, California and a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. The restaurants serve a variety of Tex-Mex foods that include tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, novelty and specialty items, and a variety of "value menu" items.

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The Flying Lizards (album)

The Flying Lizards is the 1979 self-titled debut album by The Flying Lizards and was released on the Virgin Records label.

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The Laughing Policeman (song)

"The Laughing Policeman" is a music hall song by Charles Penrose (published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly).

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The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer is a 1998 American romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Vivien Goldman

Vivien Goldman (born 25 August 1954) is a British journalist, writer and musician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Lizards

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