June 03, 1989 –
The Fine Young Cannibals second studio album, The Raw & The Cooked, started a seven-week run at No.1 on the Billboard charts on this date.
Fine Young Cannibals rose from the ashes of the UK band The Beat. Sometimes called The English Beat to distinguish them from the Paul Collins’ band, The Beat, had a number of UK Singles hits including a cover of Smokey Robinson’s Tears Of A Clown, Mirror in the Bathroom, and Too Nice To Talk To. When the band broke up in 1983, guitarists David Steele and Andy Cox went on to form FYC with a new vocalist, Roland Gift, whom they carefully chose after eight months of listening to cassettes.
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