The disco era yielded only one important lyricist, and his name was August Darnell. He wrote tongue-in-cheek satire and sang harmony for Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. When that group broke up, ...

On Kid Creole and the Coconuts’ 1981 album Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (No. 12 on that year’s Pazz & Jop), frontman Thomas August Darnell Browder croons, “Believe me I know, when you leave New York, ...

Where are the days when Kid Creole And The Coconuts conquered the charts? For that, we have to go back to the early 1980s. Hits like 'Wonderful thing', 'Stool Pigeon', 'Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy', ...

The 1980s party band are hitting the road in the UK for one last time before retiring to their tropical island of Hawaii after five decades of colourful hits and live shows. Kid Creole said ahead of ...

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Give Leslie Feist credit for not focusing solely on the coffee-shop folk pop she's so good at. On "Metals," the long-awaited follow-up to 2007's "The Reminder," Feist pushes at the edges of her sweet ...

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Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his ...

1983 Brit Award Winner (International Artist) a proper pop star, someone beamed in from somewhere rather more glittery than here. The Quietus Mr August Darnell is a person we scarcely seem to deserve, ...

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