Fun Boy Three | |
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 Left to right: Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Lynval Golding | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1981–1983 |
| Labels | Chrysalis |
| Spinoff of | The Specials |
| Past members |
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Fun Boy Three were an English new wave pop [1] band, active from 1981 to 1983 and formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left the Specials. They released two albums and had seven UK top 20 hits.
Fun Boy Three reduced the ska sound that they and Jerry Dammers had crafted with great success with the Specials and initially took a more minimal approach with the focus on percussion and vocals. [2] For their second album they assembled a six-piece backing group including a cellist and a trombone player, allowing the record to feature more diverse and expansive arrangements, and also enabling them to play live instead of being a purely studio group as previously. The band enjoyed six UK top 20 singles, starting with "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" and including the top 10 hits "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", "Tunnel of Love" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". [3] They created two albums of which the eponymous The Fun Boy Three was the more successful. The follow-up album Waiting , produced by Scottish-American singer David Byrne, was well-received critically. [4] [5] [6]
Following the trio's last UK hit "Our Lips Are Sealed", co-written by Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's, who had a U.S. hit with the song a year earlier, they then toured the United States and split afterwards.[ citation needed ]
They were credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of Bananarama, whom Hall first saw in The Face magazine.[ citation needed ] The three women provided credited chorus vocals on the hit "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"; the Fun Boy Three later sang on the Bananarama song "Really Saying Something", both reaching the top 5 in the UK. [3]
| Fun Boy Three discography | |
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| Studio albums | 2 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 3 |
| Singles | 9 |
| Title | Details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||
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| UK [7] [8] | AUS [9] | NL [10] | NZ [11] | US | |||
| The Fun Boy Three |
| 7 | 84 | 10 | 17 | – | |
| Waiting |
| 14 | – | 47 | 11 | 104 |
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| "–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
| Title | Details |
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| Live on the Test |
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| Title | Details |
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| The Best of Fun Boy Three |
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| Really Saying Something: The Best of Fun Boy |
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| The Complete Fun Boy Three |
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| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
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| UK [7] [14] | AUS [9] | IRL [15] | NL [10] | NZ [11] | US Club Play | ||||
| 1981 | "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" | 20 | 43 | 28 | – | 46 | – | Fun Boy Three | |
| 1982 | "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (Fun Boy Three with Bananarama) | 4 [7] | 55 | 5 | 3 | 37 | 49 |
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| "Really Saying Something" (Bananarama with Fun Boy Three) | 5 [7] | 74 | 9 | 16 | – | 16 |
| Deep Sea Skiving(Bananarama album) | |
| "The Telephone Always Rings" | 17 | – | 29 | 49 | – | – | Fun Boy Three | ||
| "Summertime" | 18 | – | 13 | – | – | – | — | ||
| "The More I See (The Less I Believe)" | 68 | – | – | – | – | – | Waiting | ||
| 1983 | "The Tunnel of Love" | 10 | – | 14 | 38 | – | – | ||
| "Our Lips Are Sealed" | 7 | – | 13 | – | – | – | |||
| "The Farm Yard Connection" (Germany only) | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| "–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||
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