The Flying Pickets are a British a cappella vocal group which had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 on the UK Singles Chart with their cover version...

This is the discography of the British a cappella vocal group the Flying Pickets. The group had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart...

jurisdictions, secondary pickets lack all or many of the civil law protections given to primary pickets. Secondary picketing has been illegal (in the sense that, unlike...

single-track download the following week. The remix features Moyet's original vocal with a brand new orchestral backing track. The Flying Pickets recorded an a...

describe cruising for sex Picket (punishment), a 16th and 17th century military punishment Picket, a fairy chess piece The Flying Pickets, a British a cappella...

1955) is a British musician, best known as a member of the a cappella group The Flying Pickets. Gary William Howard was born in Ilford, Essex on 16 June...

singer from Ebbw Vale, Wales, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original The Flying Pickets. Hibbard was born into a working class family in...

Talking Heads: 77 (1977). The group first performed it as the Artistics in 1974. The band also recorded an acoustic version of the song featuring Arthur Russell...

roles as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in the BBC comedy series Bottom, Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series...

"Under the Bridge" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and the eleventh track on their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)...

Duwende The Essentials (disbanded in 2011) FACE The Filharmonic Five O'Clock Shadow The Flying Pickets Fool Moon Gas House Gang (disbanded in 2005) The Gesualdo...

written over the winter of 1962–63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from the traditional...

"Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)" is a 1960 song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Orbison's recording of the song, produced by Fred Foster...

single for the Marvelettes in 1967: a remake by the Flying Pickets reached the UK Top Ten in 1984. The first recording of the song was by Ruby & the Romantics;...

member of the original Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's "Only You". Although the Flying Pickets are known...

arranger. He was one of the original members of The Flying Pickets, and arranged a number of the group's songs, including the number one hit Only You...

Like the Sun, released in October 1987. Branford Marsalis played soprano saxophone on the track, while the drums were played by Manu Katché and the percussion...

Whitlock for the 1986 film Top Gun, performed by American new wave band Berlin. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the Golden Globe...

musicians were all members of the Motown Records house band The Funk Brothers who often moonlighted on sessions for Davis to augment the wages paid by Motown...

in competition. The song was mainly composed by songwriting team Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education...

Track) - 2:40 The Flying Pickets recorded an a cappella version of the song. It was included on their 1988 compilation Best of The Flying Pickets. Australian...

the album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful later that year. The single was the Lovin' Spoonful's fifth to break the top ten in the United States, and the only...

(lead vocal: The Flying Pickets) – 4:36 "You're on Your Own" (lead vocal: Kiki Dee) – 3:54 "Far Away from Home" (lead vocal: The Flying Pickets) – 3:11 "Let...

In the United Kingdom, Christmas number ones are singles that top the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. The singles have often...

"Rain on the Roof" (sometimes titled "You and Me and Rain on the Roof") is a song by the American folk-rock band the Lovin' Spoonful. Written by John...

organise flying pickets. Higgins organised pickets at a large construction firm's site in Northampton in 1975 after a dispute. The union won the dispute...

singing and all things vocal. He a member of the Wise Guys (band) and the Flying Pickets. He's also founder of The Ghost Files, a vocal studio project dedicated...

The 1983 Christmas number-one, an a capella cover of Yazoo's "Only You" by The Flying Pickets, remained at number-one for the first week of 1984. The...

between flying pickets and police characterised the year-long strike, which ended in a decisive victory for the Conservative government and allowed the closure...

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler made up the top five. Singles by Spandau Ballet, Men at Work, Michael Jackson, The Flying Pickets and Lionel Richie...