12-19-2022, 09:33 AM
(12-19-2022, 05:40 AM)Greg Wrote: Put this in the back when Greg was cool file (Greg was never cool): I remember listening to them back in Ireland when they were first starting out and referred to simply as The Beat. Was quite confused when I heard them back in the States and they were now known as The English Beat. I guess someone in the US was already using that name.
(Paul Collins) Beat. I don't remember the song, but they had a video in heavy rotation on MTV. The keyboardist was Phil Shaeffer-esque and Paul Collins was prematurely bald. I think KB and Pete Donahue referred to the band as "Varying Degrees of Baldness".
--tg