#475:Mike Score / A Flock Of Seagulls

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Today on Let There Be Talk my guest is New Wave legend Mike Score of A Flock Of Seagulls.

I first saw A flock Of Seagulls in 1983 at the US Festival in the middle of the 80's New Wave explosion.MTV was in high gear and all kinds of great New Wave music was filling the airwaves. A Flock Of Seagulls had incredible songs like "I Ran" "Space Age Love Song" "Wishing and Nightmares.

Mike Score was everywhere in the early 80's with his incredible Hair, Fashion and Songs.

It was an honor to talk to this man about his Music career.

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0:00.0	Hey, what up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Let the Be Talk. It's episode number
0:05.2	475 and it is May 6th, one day after Cinco de Mayo. Or as I would say, the 27th anniversary
0:15.8	of my second DUI. Here we are. A celebration today. We're all alive. We're buckled in with
0:22.9	our headphones or however else you listen to this show. I welcome you here and I thank
0:29.7	you for stopping by every week. Great guest today. Great guest. I don't think a lot of people
0:37.6	understand how much great music was going on in the 80s. You had all kinds of different styles.
0:43.5	You had New Wave, you had punk rock, you had metal. You also had that big, big urban cowboy
0:50.0	country push going on. Do you guys remember urban cowboy? Have you ever seen that masterpiece
0:55.8	with Mr. John Travolta riding the mechanical bull down at Gillies? Anybody remember Gillies?
1:03.4	Anybody remember Gillies? Eating the worm out of the tequila? All that shit. White trash
1:10.3	fighting in a pickup truck living in a mobile home park. What a film. It's amazing that
1:18.2	John Travolta did two movies that changed how a lot of people dressed and looked Saturday
1:24.9	and I fever being old disco and then a few years later, full blown country. There
1:30.6	was guys in my high school wearing cowboy hats in the 10th grade or whatever that was just
1:37.2	walking around with a can of skull. Got a can't you got a dip with that white circle around
1:45.0	the back pocket. You got a chew. Let me get a sniff. Let me get a dip.
1:54.5	I love life when it was so simple like that. No internet or anything. You just saw a movie
2:01.9	and your day was changed the next day. You were down at the fucking Kmart picking up some
2:09.2	Wranglers and some Luke K. Z cowboy boots, maybe some gators or snake. It was funny because
2:19.4	you went from your country outfit right into your guns and roses outfit because the cowboy
2:24.8	boots were universal. Universal. It was hilarious to think that the cowboy boot was part of
2:33.1	the rock and roll look. I love it all. I love it all. I'll take it all. It's all great
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