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Fine Young Cannibals haven’t come close to reforming, and the trio drifted apart rather than staging a dramatic finale. As a result, they’ve largely been forgotten in the 29 years since releasing any

When ska-pop contenders The Beat ended in July ’83, bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox were cut adrift. Then they found frontman Roland Gift, lifted a name from a Natalie Wood movie and re-emerged as FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS . 1985 UK hit Johnny Come Home was followed by international mega-smash She Drives Me Crazy in 1989. “We didn’t think it would go that mad,” recall the band of multi-million sales, Hollywood A-list fans and ‘bendy legs’ dancing. “We didn’t know how to manage the energy that we’d created.”

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Celebrating the finest in American trash and kitsch culture, The Cramps played rock’n’roll at its delinquent, B-movie best.