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Thomas Dolby is one of the great legends of electronic music. His career as a solo artist includes two of the most unique and recognizable hits of the genre, 
She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive!.
Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing the fall, the members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club with bruce woolley, and matthew seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his song New Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released europa and the pirate twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.
Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders.
She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive!.Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing the fall, the members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club with bruce woolley, and matthew seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his song New Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released europa and the pirate twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.
Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders.
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Thomas Dolby: Dissidents
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Thomas Dolby "The Flat Earth"
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Thomas Dolby - Radio Silence
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Thomas Dolby-Airwaves
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She Blinded Me With Science
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Hyperactive!
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I Scare Myself
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Europa and the Pirate Twins
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One of Our Submarines
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Airwaves
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Windpower
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Radio Silence
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The Flat Earth
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Screen Kiss
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Dissidents
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I Love You Goodbye
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Flying North
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Commercial Breakup
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Shoutbox
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ericman7676 wrote:
SCIENCE!!
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Boski93 wrote:
The Alton Brown of New Wave Music!
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JohnnyQu wrote:
This whole cassette tape, which I had back then, reminds me of Spring Break 1982 New Smyrna Beach, Florida. AND I SMOKE MARIJUANNA STILL!!
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Svenitou wrote:
Popmusic for the brain!
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conanthecat wrote:
Luv flat earth and howard the duck (no kidding). Luv you mr. mad scientist.
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Always been a big fan. Flat Earth is one of the best albums I've ever heard. fyi- just recently found out that " I scare myself" is a cover tune, original by Dan Hicks and hi (or "the"?) Hot Licks. Stumbled onto a video for it on youtube.
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courtofmiracles wrote:
lol his activity is coming up as my recent activity. Recent Activity This section displays your activity on Last.fm. Right now only you can see it, but on Tuesday afternoon it will become public. You can change this in your privacy settings. chefgoot tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘80s’. Wednesday afternoon fernbom tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘synthpop’. Saturday afternoon oinktwins uploaded dolbystare1982 to Thomas Dolby’s images. 8 days ago oinktwins uploaded thomas-dolby to Thomas Dolby’s images. 8 days ago cogsncogs tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘new wave’. 10 days ago MRKILLINGJOKE tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘electronic’. 11 days ago ravelston89 and wolf_san tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘new wave’. 22 days ago musica23 tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘seen live’. last month radiojerico tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘synth legend’. last month mulm66 tagged Thomas Dolby with ‘new wave’. May 2008 lol
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vanmartyn wrote:
Great work with Prefab Sprout... and i love "I Scare myself" ..
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Shmorgasborg wrote:
The Flat Earth is a terrific album. Screen Kiss may be one of the greatest songs no one will ever hear.
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Zwopper wrote:
Cool that he played with Def Leppard on Pyromania which became famous for it's cool (un-genre-like) synth sounds.
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TripleSol wrote:
The Bio has a lot of crazy tag links, what the hell!
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jinglefae wrote:
Hm. That's a different version of She Blinded Me With Science than on The Golden Age of Wireless.
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CrnkMnky wrote:
Yes about-this, he was a pretty hot mad scientist. No red-xiv, you should make an AMV of Hyperactive or Submarines. The GREATEST AMV I ever saw was done for Blinded using Tenchi Muyo clips.
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red-xiv wrote:
Loved She Blinded Me With Science. I think I need to make an AMV of this song!
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8m2stereo wrote:
.. well worth also checking out any album he has blessed with his production skills & sweetness, like prefab sprout ect.ect. .. via discogs ..
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ShadyAdy wrote:
'...Submarines' is such an evocative piece....just superb. And '...Blimp' is a gloriously subtle epic. Finally saw TD in concert at his Cambridge gig last October - including a brass section trio, who were fantastic. Such an intimate gig too, only 60 people in the venue - Dolby had to walk through the audience to get to and from the stage! One of the best gigs I've been to in years.
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tom_dissonance wrote:
he wrote the polyphonic adaptation of the Nokia tune ringtone. dude must be richer than the sun.
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M3nT4T73 wrote:
Bye Bye Empire Bye Bye...One of our submarines is one of my 80s favourite song ever.
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Arpe wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Steampunk
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Akiamemoto wrote:
Budapest By Blimp is the best song ever..
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