The Psychedelic Furs are a British new wave band founded in London in February 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs were one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. Their music went through several phases, from an initially austere art rock sound, to later touching on new wave and hard rock.]
The band scored several hits in their early career. In 1986, filmmaker John Hughes used their song “Pretty in Pink” for his movie of the same name. They went on hiatus after they finished touring in 1992, but later regrouped in 2000 and continued to perform live within the next 20 years.
The band took a long break in the early 1990s, with Richard and Tim Butler going on to found Love Spit Love with Richard Fortus and Frank Ferrer (both of whom would later join Guns N’ Roses). In 2000, Richard Butler, Tim Butler and Ashton reformed the Psychedelic Furs. The touring lineup also included Fortus and later, Ferrer. They released a live album, Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live , which included a new studio recording, “Alive (For Once in My Lifetime)”.
In 2006, Richard Butler released a solo album, Richard Butler. Since re-forming in 2001, the band continued to tour worldwide. The current Psychedelic Furs touring line-up includes Richard Butler, Tim Butler, Garisto, Williams, Amanda Kramer and Rich Good.
In 2017, the band’s 1984 single “The Ghost in You” was featured in the second season of Netflix hit series Stranger Things, and was included on the Sony Music soundtrack companion to the season, Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series, released in October 2017. That same year, the band’s 1982 single “Love My Way” was played several times in the Oscar-nominated film Call Me By Your Name. The Psychedelic Furs will release their eighth studio album Made of Rain on 1 May 2020. This will mark the first full-length studio album by the band since 1991’s World Outside.
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Discography:
The Psychedelic Furs (1980)
Talk Talk Talk (1981)
Forever Now (1982)
Mirror Moves (1984)
Midnight to Midnight (1987)
Book of Days (1989)
World Outside (1991)
Made of Rain (2020)
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