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

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...

orchestral backing track. The Flying Pickets recorded an a cappella cover of "Only You" which was the Christmas number one in the UK in December 1983. It...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

cappella group The Flying Pickets from their album The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1. Notable jazz musician Frank Bennett covered the song by fusing elements...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

brothers Tom and Ed Russell. Prior to the formation of Overmono, Tom and Ed Russell both explored solo careers. Under the name 'Truss', Tom produced hard techno;...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

"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...

with 36 Top 40 hits in the UK and 19 in the US, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat?", the theme song for the James Bond film Thunderball...

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

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...

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...

December 1986 (only the second a cappella recording to do so, after "Only You" by the Flying Pickets in 1983), before being denied the Christmas number one...

released a cover of the Yazoo song "Only You", dedicated to her grandfather, who had introduced her to The Flying Pickets' cover version of the song when she...