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Roland Lee Gift (born 28 May 1961) is a British musician and actor. He is the former lead vocalist of the pop rock band Fine Young Cannibals. Early life.
Fine Young Cannibals ( FYC) were an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984 by former The Beat band bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox [5] with singer Roland Gift (formerly of the Akrylykz ). Their self-titled 1985 debut album contained "Johnny Come Home" and a cover of "Suspicious Minds", two songs that were top ...
She Drives Me Crazy. " She Drives Me Crazy " is a song by British group Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1988 by London Records as the first single from their second and final album, The Raw & the Cooked (1989). The song was written by the group's frontman Roland Gift with David Steele and produced by FYC with David Z.
The Raw & the Cooked is the second and final studio album by British rock band Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1989. The title of the album was lifted from the book of the same name ( Le Cru et le Cuit in French) by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Four songs from the album first appeared in film soundtracks in the mid-1980s, three ...
Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals song) " Good Thing " is a song by British band Fine Young Cannibals, released as the second single from their second and last album, The Raw & the Cooked (1989). The song was their second and final US number-one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. [4] It also peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart. [5]
Composition. Written by lead vocalist Roland Gift and bassist David Steele, "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be" contains prominent drum beats with keyboards and finger-picked guitar accompaniment. The song utilises, throughout the track, a sample from "Funky Drummer" by James Brown. [1] Allmusic writer Jo-Ann Greene described the song as having "a ...
The Raw & the Cooked. (1989) Fine Young Cannibals is the debut studio album released in 1985 by the band of the same name. The album features the UK #8 debut hit single "Johnny Come Home". This success did not continue with the next single, "Blue", which languished at #41 in the UK.
Roland Gift is the only studio album by English singer Roland Gift, released in 2002. It includes songs co-written with the Kane Gang 's Martin Brammer and Mike Barson's brother Ben. [2] The cover photography was by Chris Floyd .