The Flying Lizards

The Flying Lizards
Origin	United Kingdom
Genres	Post-punk,new wave
Years active	1976–1984
Labels	Virgin, Statik
Past members	David Toop Steve Beresford David Cunningham Vivien Goldman Robert Fripp Bob Black Deborah Evans-Stickland Patti Palladin Peter Laurence Gordon Sally Peterson Julian Marshall

The Flying Lizards were an English band, formed in 1976 in England. Their cover version of Barrett Strong's "Money" featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland on lead vocal reached the UK and US record charts in 1979.

Formed by and led by record producer David Cunningham, the group was a loose collective of avant-garde and free improvising musicians, such as David Toop and Steve Beresford as instrumentalists, with Deborah Evans-Stickland, Patti Palladin and Vivien Goldman as main vocalists.

In August 1979 the band appreared twice on BBC's Top of the Pops performing their hit single "Money (That's What I Want)". They also appeared in February 1980 performing follow up single "TV". Virgin Records extended the band's recording contract after the success of "Money". The group released their début album The Flying Lizards in 1980. The album included two songs – "Her Story" and "The Window" – written and sung by Goldman. Their single issues included their postmodern cover versions of songs such as Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" and "Money".

The 1981 album Fourth Wall received praise from critics but did not sell well.Top Ten (1984), with vocalist Sally Peterson, released by Statik records, consisted entirely of covers, done in a similarly deliberately emotionless, and robotic style, (described by the NME at the time as "Sloane Rap"), including two singles, James Brown's "Sex Machine" and "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy" as well as an album track of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne". Cunningham and Peterson worked together on music production for film and advertising after Top Ten was released, including a re-recording of "Money".

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