Fun Boy Three
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
Where the Specials were a ska-revival band, the Fun Boy Three was a new wave pop group with distinctly weird, skeletal, and experimental overtones. The band released their first single, The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum), shortly after they departed from the Specials. The single peaked at number 20 late in 1981. Early in 1982, the group charted again with It Aint What You Do (Its the Way That You Do It), a duet with Bananarama on an old Jimmie Lunceford song. The Fun Boy Three finally released their eponymous debut in the spring of 1982. That summer, they had a hit with a cover of George Gershwins Summertime. The group recorded a second album with Talking Heads leader David Byrne late in 1982. The resulting album, Waiting, appeared in the spring of 1983, concurrently with the Top Ten singles The Tunnel of Love and Our Lips Are Sealed, a song Hall wrote with Jane Wiedlin, who already made it into a hit the previous year with her group, the Go-Gos.
By the summer of 1983, the Fun Boy Three were peaking in popularity and Hall disbanded the group.
