Singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding took what name in the early '80's?
"Fun Boy Three (album) The Fun Boy Three is the debut album by The Fun Boy Three, a band consisting of three ex-members of the UK ska band The Specials: Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding. It was released in 1982 by Chrysalis Records and was re-released in 1999 by EMI as ""Fame"". Several songs on the album feature backing vocals by the female pop trio Bananarama. Three singles were released from the album: ""The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)"", ""It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It"", and a remix (with overdubbed horns)"
"Terry Hall (singer) Terence Edward Hall is an English musician and the lead singer of The Specials, and formerly of Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas. He has released two solo albums and has also collaborated with many artists including David A. Stewart, Bananarama, Lightning Seeds, Sinéad O'Connor, Stephen Duffy, Dub Pistols, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, D12, Tricky, Junkie XL, Leila Arab, Lily Allen, Shakespears Sister, Salad, and Nouvelle Vague. Born and raised in Coventry, England, Hall left school before his fifteenth birthday, taking various short-term jobs – bricklayer, quantity surveyor, and apprentice hairdresser among them."
"the UK Singles Chart, the trio released the ""Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes"" album, which failed to chart. In 1992, Terry joined forces with Dave Stewart, most famous for his role as one half of Eurythmics. The duo took on the name Vegas and released ""Vegas"", a slick electronic pop album that was heavily promoted by their label BMG. It failed to chart. Only one of the three singles lifted from the album, ""Possessed,"" managed to break the UK Top 40, reaching No. 32. Hall began his formal solo career in 1994 with ""Home"". The album was produced by his former"
"Non-UK singles are marked in brackets. The Colourfield The Colourfield were an English band formed in 1984 in Manchester when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman Terry Hall joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale. Despite the fact that all three members were from Coventry, the band was based in Manchester. In January 1984 The Colourfield released their first single, ""The Colour Field"", which just missed making the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. In the summer of the same year, they released ""Take"" as their second single, which commercially performed less well. Their"
"short-lived Fun Boy Three. Then Hall formed The Colourfield in 1984. Terry, Blair & Anouchka were formed shortly after the dissolution of Terry's previous musical project The Colourfield. All three members shared a love for '60s pop, as well as kitschy mainstream pop, as evidenced on the trio's cover of Captain & Tennille's ""Love Will Keep Us Together."" Their debut single ""Missing,"" was released in the autumn of 1989 and peaked at number 75 on the UK singles charts. The trio's second single, ""Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme,"" reached number 77. Their debut album, also called ""Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes"", was"
"Nashville, arriving in 1964 with $46 and a guitar; within months he had songs climbing the charts. Hall has been nicknamed ""The Storyteller,"" and he has written songs for dozens of country stars, including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, and Bobby Bare. One of his earliest successful songwriting ventures, ""Harper Valley PTA,"" recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley, hit No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts a week apart, sold over six million copies, and won both a Grammy Award and CMA Award. The song would go on to"
"The Colourfield The Colourfield were an English band formed in 1984 in Manchester when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman Terry Hall joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale. Despite the fact that all three members were from Coventry, the band was based in Manchester. In January 1984 The Colourfield released their first single, ""The Colour Field"", which just missed making the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. In the summer of the same year, they released ""Take"" as their second single, which commercially performed less well. Their third single was ""Thinking of You"","
"recruited Tommy Tate to replace Hoskins, and the group recorded three singles for Stax in the early 1970s before disbanding. Bill Davis, Quincy Billops Jr., and Rochester Neal left Stax, and went on to join The Ovations. Ollie Nightingale appeared in the 1993 film ""The Firm"", starring Tom Cruise, and recorded four albums for Ecko Records afterwords. He died in Memphis on October 26, 1997 of a heart attack. The Dixie Nightingales The Dixie Nightingales, also known as Ollie & the Nightingales and The Nightingales, was an African-American male vocal group, whose repertoire included gospel and later rhythm and blues"
"in February, 2016. The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2018. Source: The Staple Singers The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group. Roebuck ""Pops"" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), Pervis (b. 1935), and Mavis (b. 1939). Yvonne (October 23, 1937 – April 10, 2018) replaced her brother when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and again in 1970. They are best known"
"in 2010 though Hall and his sessioners recorded significant sections of the finished album. Hall has undertaken many other projects since The Colourfield. In 1990, he formed Terry, Blair & Anouchka, who released the album ""Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes"" which contained a cover of Captain & Tennille's ""Love Will Keep Us Together"". In 1992 he collaborated with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) under the name Vegas. In 1995 he released his first solo album, ""Home"". He has worked with The Lightning Seeds, Stephen Duffy, Gorillaz, and Tricky. He has also appeared live with The Ordinary Boys. On 21 July 2003, Hall released"
"up and talk until 2 o'clock in the morning and Sam would tell me, 'Rick, don't go to Nashville, because they'll eat your soul alive.' I wanted to be like Sam — I wanted to be somebody special."" In 1959, Hall and Sherrill accepted an offer from Tom Stafford, the owner of a recording studio, to help set up a new music publishing company in the town of Florence, to be known as Florence Alabama Music Enterprises, or FAME. However, in 1960, Sherrill and Stafford dissolved the partnership, leaving Hall with rights to the studio name. Hall first success as"
"group, The Town Folk Singers, with Vicki Stringfellow, Dave Richter and Andy Wade. They won several local and regional competitions. At 14, she helped form a local chapter of the world-renowned vocalist organization, Up With People, in her hometown of Oroville, California. Then in 1967, Hall traveled with a national cast of Up With People, performing in a trio with motion picture star, Glenn Close. In 1968, as a varsity cheerleader, she performed a song she wrote for her mother for hundreds of attendees at a cheerleading camp. The response was overwhelmingly positive and the experience helped launch her solo"
"Aaron Hall (singer) Aaron Hall (born August 10, 1964, The Bronx, New York City and growing up in Brooklyn and Roosevelt, Long Island), is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is a current member of the group Guy, which he founded in the late 1980s, along with New jack swing producer Teddy Riley and songwriter Timmy Gatling, who was later replaced by Hall's brother Damion Hall. In 1988, they released their debut album which went on to sell over a million copies being certified platinum. Hall led the group in songs like ""Groove Me"", ""I Like"" and ""Piece Of"
"culminate in collaborations with Ian Broudie and Hall contributing a number of songs to Broudie's albums as The Lightning Seeds. Hall also co-wrote the song ""Smoke Ring"" for Broudie's debut solo album ""Tales Told"", which was also released as the lead track on the ""Smoke Rings"" EP. A second Colourfield album, ""Deception"", was released in 1987, reaching No. 95 in the UK Albums Chart. In 1989, Hall teamed up with American actress Blair Booth and jeweller Anouchka Grose and began recording under the moniker of Terry, Blair & Anouchka. After two singles which both scraped into the Top 80 of"
"Daryl Hall Daryl Franklin Hohl (born October 11, 1946), better known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates). In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hall scored numerous ""Billboard"" chart hits and is regarded as one of the best soul singers of his generation. Guitarist Robert Fripp, who collaborated with him in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has written, ""Daryl's pipes were a wonder. I have never worked with a"
"singing for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick Park in San Francisco for over 50,000 people at the age of 7. Hall changed her professional name from ""Celina Carvajal"" to Lena Hall in 2013, saying she had created it for her music persona and now wanted to use it for her acting career as well. She explained her name change to ""Broadway.com"": ""Multiple people in the industry suggested I have one name for everything. [Lena Hall] is just two shortenings of my first name and my last name. So Lena Hall ""is"" Celina Carvajal. It seemed like an easier way"
"School in Bellevue, Tennessee, not far from his then-home in Franklin. He liked the sound of the name and decided to write a song using a similar place name. He also reportedly wrote the song about Olive Hill, Kentucky, where Hall grew up. The song was later the inspiration for a 1978 motion picture and a short-lived 1981 television series, both starring Barbara Eden, playing the heroine of the story, Mrs. Johnson—who now had a first name, Stella. Several other songs in the ""Harper Valley PTA"" album told stories of some of the other characters from the title tune, including"
"Mountain High"", a record which had failed in the US but became a major hit in the UK. Hall left Decca in 1967, and formed the UK's first independent promotion company, Tony Hall Enterprises, which was responsible for promoting acts including Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, and Black Sabbath. He then moved into management, guiding the careers of The Real Thing, Loose Ends, and Lynden David Hall in the 1980s and 1990s. He continues to write for ""Jazzwise"" magazine. Tony Hall (music executive) Anthony Salvin Hall (born 1 April 1928) is a British music business executive, columnist, and former record producer"
"and Plas Johnson, all African American musicians from Louisiana, were the house band at Rendezvous Records. According to Palmer, the three friends “always talked about how we could make some money and not leave the studio. One day I said, 'Let's do a rock version of ""In the Mood""'. The single, credited to the Ernie Fields Orchestra, became a hit, reaching # 4 on the US pop charts in early 1960. Hall then came up with the idea for B. Bumble and the Stingers, taking the same approach to a piece of classical music. Prompted by record producer Kim Fowley,"
"Tom T. Hall Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash ""Harper Valley PTA"" and the hit ""I Love"", which reached No. 12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. He became known to fans as ""The Storyteller,"" thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting. Hall was born in 1936. As a teenager, he organized a band called the Kentucky Travelers that"
"adding keyboards and vocals and stayed with the band through their tenure in the Southern Rock era. A period of personnel and record label changes followed and in 1978 with a new Epic Records contract the new line-up included Jimmy and Jack Hall, Mike Duke, drummer T.K. Lively, and guitarists Marshall Smith and Larry Berwald through the early 80's. After a brief hiatus the band regrouped in the early 90’s featuring the siblings Jimmy, Jack and Donna Hall, original keyboardist John David Anthony and drummer T.K. Lively as well as long-time members guitarists Ric Seymour and Ricky Chancey. Wet Willie"
"mod-style ""1960s period rude boy outfits (pork pie hats, tonic and mohair suits and loafers)"". In 1980, the song ""Too Much Too Young"", the lead track on their ""The Special AKA Live!"" EP, reached No. 1 in the UK. In 1981, the recession-themed single ""Ghost Town"" also hit No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. After seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles between 1979 and 1981, main lead vocalists Hall and Staple, along with guitarist Golding, left to form Fun Boy Three. Continuing on as ""The Special AKA"" (a name they used frequently on earlier Specials releases), a substantially revised"
"made him feel poor and ashamed. According to Hall, his middle name and the nickname ""Moby"" were given to him by his parents because of an ancestral relationship to ""Moby Dick"" author Herman Melville: ""The basis for Richard Melville Hall—and for Moby—is that supposedly Herman Melville was my great-great-great-grand uncle."" Moby began studying music when he was 9 years old, and during the 1980s, Hall played guitar for the hardcore punk band Vatican Commandos. Later in the decade, he was a guitarist for the alternative rock group Ultra Vivid Scene and appeared in the video for their 1989 single ""Mercy"
"Today's Specials Today's Specials is a cover album by The Specials, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). It is the first studio album by the group since 1984, although not in the full original line-up. Original members Neville Staple, Roddy Byers, Lynval Golding, and Horace Panter are joined by new members Mark Adams and Adam Birch, along with a number of sessions musicians. Lead vocals are mostly handled by Staple and Golding, with Neville's daughter Sheena Staples contributing backing vocals to the album. The album did not receive favourable reviews from media or fans, with many reviewers decrying in"
"Hello (band) Hello is an English glam rock band. They originally recorded for the Bell Records label. The core of Hello was founded around 1969, originally being called The Age. The band was started by Bob Bradbury, previously of The Flashback Berries, with Keith Marshall, Vic Faulkner, and Jeff Allen (brother of Chris Allen, alias Chris Cross of Ultravox). For about a year, they backed singer Caroline Hall, before renaming themselves as Hello in 1971. The group recorded ""You Move Me"" and ""C'mon"" in 1972 as well as ""Another School Day"" in 1973, all on the BELL record label, although"
"Terry, Blair & Anouchka Terry, Blair & Anouchka were a musical group, active in the early 1990s. They were formed by Coventry-born singer Terry Hall, American actress Blair Booth and jeweller Anouchka Grose. Anouchka was formerly the lead singer and guitarist of Urmin Spindle, an acid folk group who played songs about the dark heart of the rural dream and their chemical estrangement from nature. Terry Hall was previously a founding member and lead singer of the British ska group The Specials, the forefathers of the 2 Tone era. This was before leaving with two other members to form the"
"appearing at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the 2009 Melbourne Comedy festival. The band were originally credited as ""The Black Liars"", and were renamed as ""The Honky Tonk A**holes"" when joined by Horst Furst II (bassist, Nigel Portman Smith) and drummer Mark Hewitt. Rich Hall Richard Travis Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as ""Fridays"", ""Not Necessarily the News"" (popularising the ""sniglet"" neologism), and ""Saturday"
"1978, produced an array of albums awash in good-time music, rollicking high-energy blues-rock, and Southern soul while releasing several charting singles and achieving one Top Ten hit and a lot of admirers. They toured and recorded extensively from 1969 through the early Eighties, and they still perform today in two slightly different versions, depending on whether Jimmy Hall is present. When Hall is with the band, it is billed as Wet Willie; otherwise, it is billed as The Wet Willie Band. The core members of the band during that period were Jimmy Hall, vocals, harmonica, saxophone; Jimmy's brother Jack Hall"
"Snuff (country rock band) Snuff were an American country rock/rockabilly band based in Southern Virginia and active during the 1970s and early 1980s. They released a pair of albums and scored a minor hit on the pop charts with ""Bad, Bad Billy"" in 1983. Snuff initially formed in the 1970s and began as an acoustic trio featuring guitarist James Gray ""Jimbo"" Bowling, guitarist Bill Wampler, and vocalist Mike Jones. However, the group gradually incorporated more of an electric sound into their repertoire, and by the 1980s, they had evolved into a six-member outfit, including Bowling, guitarist Robbie House, lead vocalist/acoustic"
"released in February 1990. The group split shortly afterwards. Blair Booth formed Oui 3 with Philipp Erb and Trevor Miles in 1991. Their most notable hit single was ""Break From the Old Routine"" in 1993. In 1992, Terry Hall collaborated with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics under the name ""Vegas"", before releasing a self-titled album that year. Terry, Blair & Anouchka Terry, Blair & Anouchka were a musical group, active in the early 1990s. They were formed by Coventry-born singer Terry Hall, American actress Blair Booth and jeweller Anouchka Grose. Anouchka was formerly the lead singer and guitarist of Urmin Spindle,"
"In early 2018, Hall was announced as one of 50 acts to play Whelan's Ones To Watch Festival 2018. On 18 January, he played upstairs to a close to capacity crowd. This was followed by a performance at both Electric Picnic and Castlepalooza. Hall is currently a presenter with Clare FM. He previously worked for both iRadio and Spin South West. Proper Micro NV Rory Hall (born 1994) is an Irish singer/songwriter, electronic music producer and radio presenter best known under the alias Proper Micro NV. Hall was signed by German record label plasmapool in 2015 and his debut singles"
"Hall & Oates Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American pop rock duo. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them the best selling music duo in history. They are best known for their six"
"Sims 2"". Tally Hall (band) Tally Hall is a band formed in December 2002 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The band has a relatively significant cult following, and is known for upbeat melodies and whimsical lyrics. The members used to describe their musical style as ""wonky rock,"" later changed to ""fabloo,"" in an effort to not let their music be defined by any particular genres. Tally Hall has five members, distinguished by the color of their neckties: vocalist and guitarist Rob Cantor (yellow), vocalist and bassist Zubin Sedghi (blue), vocalist and guitarist Joe Hawley (red), drummer Ross Federman (gray),"