Rico from The MoonThe song's simplistic keyboard line is referenced in the film "La La Land".He'd just sprayed it with a lot of hairspray, and it stuck - and he went with it. Someone (Frank?) tried to push Mike out of the way and pushed his hair down. Unless I'm wrong this video *doesn't* show that iconic hairstyle, but the more mundane 'Big 80s Hair.' I think the book by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein tells a story that the better-known style came about while they were all crowding in front of a small mirror prior to a show. John from Socal"The video shows the lead singer Mike Score sporting a distinctive hairstyle resembling a seagull in flight.".
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Jackson's character Jules get a cleverly coiffed young man's attention by yelling "Hey, Flock of Seagulls!" in the movie Pulp Fiction. Mike Score, along with the band's bass player Frank Maudsley, were hairdressers, and they put their skills to use in creating that distinctive hairstyle that not only defined the group, but entered the pop culture landscape - witness Samuel L. The video shows lead singer Mike Score in a room covered from floor to ceiling with aluminum foil and also floor mirrors in which you can see the reflection of the cameras.Īlong with Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, and ABC, A Flock of Seagulls was a British pop band who owed their American success almost entirely to MTV.
The video was directed by Anthony Van Den Ende, who later did Killing Joke's " Eighties" and Melissa Etheridge's " Like the Way I Do" and " Bring Me Some Water." It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween, and if your friends would understand the reference, $20 is a totally reasonable cost to dominate any costume party, so get a wig for yourself here.The imaginative (for the time) video broke the band in the US during the early days of MTV. Sadly, Score wasn’t rocking his signature hair in that video, so here’s “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” for your viewing pleasure: The wig is selling for just $20, and it “will fit most adults.” For the young’uns among is who don’t quite know who A Flock of Seagulls are, it’s likely you’ve come across “I Ran” before: The accuracy does come with a caveat, though: The same reviewer said that “a lot of people will ask to take pictures with you so be warned.” The artificial do is totally convincing: One reviewer wrote that he wore the wig to an A Flock of Seagulls concert, and said that people “lost their minds when they saw” it and thought it was his real hair. But now, the struggle is over, as has won the battle with their Mike Score wig ( via Dangerous Minds), which looks absolutely amazing: File this one under products that arrived 35 years too late, but are still too wonderful to avoid today: In the early 80s, new wave/synthpop group A Flock of Seagulls set the game ablaze with both their upbeat hits and lead singer Mike Score’s upright hair, with its iconic styling of wings on the side and a pronounced downward swoop in the middle.īack in the day, many tried and failed to emulate the style: It’s hard, and there’s a lot of hair product used in this fight against gravity.
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