The Korgis

The Korgis was a British pop band, originally from singer / bassist James Warren ( born August 25, 1951 in Bristol, UK) and singer / drummer Andy Cresswell -Davis ( born August 10, 1949) was. Together with the unofficial members Stuart Gordon ( guitar) and Phil Harrison (keyboards) were both in the 1970s, founder of the band Stackridge.

Career

The single If I had you had to place 13 in the British charts in 1979, a first moderate success. In the same year the debut album The Korgis was published. The single Everybody 's Got To Learn Sometime from their second album Dumb Waiters 1980 was a great success. The single reached number 5 in the UK, number 18 of the American, ranked 11th in Australia, place 6 of the Swiss and at least number 48 on the German charts. Over the years, the melancholy, equipped with catchy piano chords play was often gecovert, including Beck, Erasure, Baby D, Yazz, Army of Lovers, Dream Academy, Flying Pickets, Zucchero, Joana Zimmer and Marc et Claude.

Despite this success, the band dissolved in 1982 after the release of the third album Sticky George under the project name " James Warren & The Korgis " on. In a brief reunion early nineties took The Korgis, at that time consisting of Warren, Davis and John Baker, the song again and released the album This World 's For Everyone, before they separated again.

The previous albums have been digitally remastered and re-released in 1999. 2005 Warren, Davis and Baker met at the receptacles for the collection Kollection again and recorded the album Unplugged on which appeared the following year. The song also published in 2006, Something About The Beatles had their first single since another remix version of Everybody's got to learn sometime in 1993.

Discography

  • The Korgis (1979 )
  • Dumb Waiters (1980 )
  • Sticky George (1981 )
  • This World 's For Everyone ( 1992)
  • Kollection (2005)
  • Unplugged (2006)
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