And then, I decided I would do it like a Ziggy Stardust type thing, where it was all spiked on top and long in the back. My hair, it used to be long and curly on one side. What is the story behind your iconic hairstyle in the “Space Age Love Song” video? I think it was done pretty cheap and it turned out to be quite an iconic little video. We were just like, “Wow, we’re actually being filmed to be seen by people,” which was funny at the time. It was basically, “We’ve got to make some kind of promo for this song.” We went out and bought some clothes, messed around with our hair and when we got back, they had set up this thing and they said, “Just go in there and play, and the camera will spin around.” It wasn’t our idea it was a director’s idea.
I think it was done in about an hour and a half. “I Ran” was the one where we all spun around with the mirrors. What do you recall about the filming of the “I Ran” video? I think they had like 10 videos, and we were one of them…That just got rotated and rotated, and all over the country, we’d go to play in places like Kansas and kids were coming up, going, “I love the video!” We became one of the first bands to have anything on MTV. We got a release in America, and right at that time, MTV was really growing fast. It was just a case of everything lining up for us.
How much of a role did MTV play in the breaking of the band? We never actually got to play with an orchestra we just heard what they’d done.
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We had an arranger/conductor guy, and he then took what we recorded in separate studios and put it together in Pro Tools or something, and the orchestra laid their parts down on it. How was it playing with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?Īgain, that was done separately. But although we made the album together, we never recorded together we all recorded in separate studios. So I said, “Let’s do it.” Then he said, “Can I get the whole rest of the band involved, the originals?” So, it came to pass. John Pitcher, who owns a record company, “We’d like for you to do your greatest hits, but with an orchestra.” And it sounded like, “Why not?” It’s something that we never thought of in the past. What made the original lineup reunite for the album Ascension? Score spoke about the band’s new album, his iconic hairstyle and the 80s. 4 at the Tilles Center Concert Hall-where they will also be joined by a variety of other 80s hit-making acts.
3 at Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk and Aug. And A Flock of Seagulls will be playing a pair of local dates-Aug. This year, the band’s original lineup reunited for a new album, Ascension, which sees the group joined by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and recreating some of its best-known compositions. Think classics like “I Ran,” “Space Age Love Song” and “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You).”
But the band, which has been led by Mike Score from the beginning, is responsible for some of the most enduring new wave tunes of all-time. Some may merely associate A Flock of Seagulls with a certain haircut (even tough guy Jules refers to his soon-to-be-victim as “Flock of Seagulls” due to his hairdo in Pulp Fiction).
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