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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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Kid Creole and the Coconuts — possessed of a flavorful, beat-driven energy with a slight urban touch — were a staple of the hip musical experience in the Eighties. Prior to that time, however, central ...