… I’ve always toyed with the idea that the Flying Lizards represented rock and roll from some sort of alternative universe.
David Cunningham, Zigzag magazine, 1984
Formed: England, 1976
Featured album: The Flying Lizards (1980)
THEY MIGHT BE remembered as little more than one-hit-wonders for their robotic cover of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)”. But there’s more to The Flying Lizards than a novelty single, albeit a brilliant one. Straddling the creative ferment of post-punk and the commercial appeal of new wave, The Flying Lizards resist easy categorisation, joining the likes of The Residents and Devo as avant-garde pop deconstructionists of a most peculiar nature.
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