Then you get into people saying you look like a '57 Cadillac (laughs). Now the Seagull hair came from, we were getting ready to go on stage, and I was looking in the mirror, spiking my hair up, and Franky (Maudsley), the original bass player, he basically put his hand on the top of my head and said, “Could you scoot down so I can see?” He wanted to see himself, and it just flattened the top of my hair, and at the same time, my manager was trying to rush us onstage … Basically, I went on like that, then I saw some of the girls pointing at my hair, saying, “Wow, what's that?” Next time, I said, “Now I'm going to flatten it myself and stick the sides up, wingy. We all had kind of that Ziggy Stardust hairdo, just spiky and things like that. The Ziggy Stardust things was really big with us, and Alice Cooper was really big with us, just because he had an incredible show, you know? We were broke, so we wanted to look kind of spectacular. MS: We were into any band that put on a bit more of a show. WM: OK, where did the hairdo really come from? Was it really inspired by David Bowie, as I have read? When they see a band come out and just do their own stuff and have their own style, I think that gives them a lot of inspiration, you know? They looked at us and said, “That's where I want to be.” When we talked to kids in bands during that period, they couldn't get a gig unless they were doing cover tunes. We played everywhere … I think here the kids wanted a bit more outrageous, a bit more rebellion against what was going on here. We played little bars in Kansas, little bars in Long Island. Our first year in America, we did 250 shows in like 350 days, or something like that. Although people thought we were like that, we were a heavy touring band. MS: Looking from the inside, I think, although a lot of people think the band was more like a fashion band because of the hairstyle and all that, I think, actually, we were quite individual sounding, quite individual attitude toward the rock and roll situation. WM: Why do you think A Flock of Seagulls were so popular back then? Even if it's not such a great name, we inspired them. You know, the thing is, they've obviously taken an '80s kind of name. MS: (Laughs loudly) Only a flock of assholes would get a name like that. WM: I don't know if you know this, but up here in Worcester, there is an '80s cover band called A Flock of Assholes. Everyone was like, 'Wow, what a strange name.' I think the name made people want to hear what we were about. We knew we were going to have to change our name … Strangely enough, from that moment on, everybody noticed us. Originally, were called Level 7, but Level 42 has just put their album out. He looked like he looked right at us and called out, “a flock of seagulls.” We took it as a sign. One of their songs was called “Toiler on the Sea.” We were at one of their concerts (The singer) yells out, “a flock of seagulls.” We were in the front row. MS: First off, it came from reading “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” And then, my favorite band was The Stranglers. WM: Where did the name, A Flock of Seagulls, come from? Worcester Magazine caught up with Score by phone recently, and dug into where the name came from, how he came up with the hairdo and his famous split from his brother, and Seagulls co-founder, Ali Score, among other things. The show also features the band Dirty Deeds. Score and the current version of The Seagulls, as he calls them, fly into Worcester for WXLO's Awesome '80's Prom Friday, April 28 at Mechanics Hall.
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