Fun Boy Three

Fun Boy Three were a short-lived but successful English new wave pop band, active from 1981 to 1983 and formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left The Specials. The band enjoyed six UK Top 20 hits, including "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" and "Tunnel of Love" and created two albums of which the eponymous Fun Boy Three was the most successful. The follow-up album Waiting, produced by David Byrne, was well-received critically but did not sell as well. The trio's last UK hit was "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. They were also credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of Bananarama, whom Hall first saw in The Face magazine. 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".

Links To Peel
Peel took interest in the group after they split from The Specials and played some of their songs on his radio shows between 1981 and 1982.

Shows Played
1981 1982
 * 26 October 1981: The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) (7") Chrysalis
 * 31 January 1982 (BFBS) (with Bananarama): It Ain't What You Do... (12" - It Ain't What You Do..../Just Do It) Chrysalis


 * 22 February 1982 (with Bananarama): 'It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It (12 inch)' (Chrysalis)


 * 02 March 1982: Way On Down (album - The FB3) Chrysalis
 * 11 March 1982: Life In General (Lewe In Algemeen) (album - The FB3) Chrysalis

TOTP
 * 18 March 1982: The Telephone Always Rings (album - FB3) Chrysalis
 * 19 April 1982: The Alibi (b/w 7" - The Telephone Always Rings) Chrysalis
 * Karl's Tape - April 1982 a: The Telephone Always Rings (7") Chrysalis
 * Karl's Tape 04 - April 1982: The Telephone Always Rings (extended version) (12") Chrysalis
 * 03 May 1982: The Telephone Always Rings (single)
 * Karl's Tape 05 - May 1982: Way To London (album - FB3) Chrysalis
 * Karl's Tape Late November 1982: The More I See (The Less I Believe) (7") Chrysalis
 * 06 December 1982: The More I See (The Less I Believe) (12") Chrysalis
 * 08 December 1982: The More I See (The Less I Believe) (7") Chrysalis
 * 27 May 1982 (TOTP): The Telephone Always Rings #28
 * 12 August 1982 (TOTP): Summertime #26
 * 03 February 1983 (TOTP): Tunnel Of Love #68
 * 05 May 1983 (TOTP): Our Lips Are Sealed #16