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"I Want" Song: "European (I Wish I Was)" from The Story Of A Young Heart, and "All I Wanna Do" from Mike's solo work.

Intercourse with You: "Say So Much" and "Love On Your Knees" from Dream Come True "Burnin' Up" from The Light At The End Of The World.

Instrumentals: Quite a few in their lineup: "Tanglimara", "D.N.A.", "2:30", "Rosenmontag", "The Last Flight Of Yuri Gagarin", "The Light At The End Of The World", and "Seven Seas".

I Am the Band: From the late 1980s to their reunion in 2018, Mike Score is A Flock Of Seagulls.

Hall of Mirrors: The "I Ran" video is set in one.

Greatest Hits: Notably their 1986 The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls and their 1999 Greatest Hits Remixed albums.

Fading into the Next Song: "The Story Of A Young Heart" -> "Never Again (The Dancer)" and "Over My Head" -> "Heart Of Steel" from The Story Of A Young Heart.

Face on the Cover: Dream Come True features three of the band members (minus Paul Reynolds, who left in 1986) playing violins against a stylish computer-generated background.

The extended version of "Heartbeat Like A Drum" (the original recording of the song without the fadeout) runs 6:57.

Epic Rocking: The extended version of "Wishing" runs 9:36.

"Standing In The Doorway" from the debut album has a 1:57 long opening.

"I Ran (So Far Away)" in the 1986 Greatest Hits album and all later releases of their debut album has a 1:34 long opening of the band getting in tune.

LYRICS SPACE AGE LOVE SONG A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS PROFESSIONAL

'80s Hair: To a ludicrous extreme (though perhaps justified given that two of the band members were professional hairdressers).The '80s - for a band that's largely known for one song, they're an icon from that decade.Driven to Suicide: "Suicide Day" at the end of The Story Of A Young Heart.Cover Version: "This Used To Be My Playground" by Madonna from Virgin Voices 2.Attempted with The Story Of A Young Heart."I Ran" in particular is about an alien abduction. Their self-titled debut has a running theme of extraterrestrials.Chained to a Railway: In the music video for "Heartbeat Like A Drum", a woman is tied down to railroad tracks in the fashion of an old-time film, but surprisingly the train merely passes right over her, showing the whole thing to be an optical illusion."It's all right when you say you love me" in "The End".Broken Record: "This is the story of a young heart, this is the story of a young heart.".Break-Up Song: "The End", "Suicide Day", and "How Could You Ever Leave Me".Book Ends: The Story Of A Young Heart starts off with the title track and ends with a slight reprise of the song at the end of "Suicide Day".Justified, in that Mike Score got the band's name from a misheard song lyric.

LYRICS SPACE AGE LOVE SONG A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS LICENSE

Artistic License Ornithology: A large group of seagulls is called a colony, not a flock.

Album Title Drop: "This is the story of a young heart.".

"Wishing" was taken from the group's second album, Listen (1983), which was moderately successful. In the U.K., "I Ran" didn't make the Top 40, but "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" reached number ten later that year in America, that single became a Top 40 hit in 1983, after "Space Age Love Song" peaked at number 30. The single climbed into the American Top Ten, taking the album along with it.

"I Ran (So Far Away)" was released as the first single from the album, and MTV quickly picked up on its icily attractive video, which featured long shots of Mike Score and his distinctive, cascading hair. The band signed a major-label contract with Jive by the end of the year, and their eponymous debut album appeared in the spring of 1982.

The group released its debut EP on Bill Nelson's Cocteau Records early in 1981, and while the record failed to chart, its lead track, "Telecommunication," became an underground hit in Euro-disco and new wave clubs. Hairdresser Mike Score (lead vocals, keyboards) formed the New Romantic band A Flock of Seagulls with his brother Ali (drums) and fellow hairdresser Frank Maudsley (bass) in 1980, adding guitarist Paul Reynolds several months later.