Curiosity Killed the Cat

Curiosity Killed the Cat
Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of Curiosity Killed the Cat at the Lafayette Parc Hotel, Lafayette, California – 1987
Background information
Also known as	Curiosity
Origin	London, England
Genres	Pop rock,sophisti-pop,New wave
Years active	1984–1992, 2000s
Labels	Mercury, RCA
Past members	Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot Julian Godfrey Brookhouse Nick Thorpe Migi Drummond

Curiosity Killed the Cat was a British pop band that achieved success in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The band played soulful, jazzy and funky pop music and was initially signed to Phonogram Records' Mercury imprint. They first came to notice of the UK music press when they worked with Andy Warhol for the video of their 1986 single "Misfit". This featured the band in New York and at one point featured frontman Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot dancing down a side street whilst Andy Warhol referenced Bob Dylan's 1965 long-form promotional film for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by dropping pieces of white card in time to the music (the Dylan film clip and its concepts have since been popularly imitated by a number of other artists, including INXS in their video for "Mediate" in 1988).

The single was initially unsuccessful but the release of their next single, "Down To Earth", gave the band a Top 3 hit in early 1987. The band's first album, Keep Your Distance, entered the UK Albums Chart at number one in April 1987, and stayed in the Top Ten for 13 weeks. Further singles included "Ordinary Day" (UK #11), "Free" (UK #56) and a re-release of "Misfit" (UK #7). "Misfit" was also their only U.S. chart single, peaking at number 42.