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"Lunatic Fringe" is a song by the Canadian rock band Red Rider from their 1981 album, As Far as Siam. The song reached No. 11 on the rock radio airplay chart in Billboard in September 1981, [2] and was awarded a SOCAN Classic award in 2009 by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada for reaching the 100,000-airplay mark on (Canadian) domestic radio.
Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe" from their second album, 1981's As Far as Siam, became popular on US album-oriented rock radio.
[citation needed] Over the rest of the 1980s, Chaos UK were the mainstay and lynchpin of the UK hardcore punk scene playing many hundreds of shows around the world, including Japan (the first English punk band to do so, but with a stand-in drummer: Blackmore of Bristol punk band Lunatic Fringe), the United States, Mexico, and all over Europe. [4]
Lunatic Fringe", the band's most famous song, is about what composer Tom Cochrane saw as an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was inspired by a book he read about Raoul Wallenberg. [2] The song is featured in the 1985 high-school wrestling movie Vision Quest , the Miami Vice episode " Smuggler's Blues ", the My Name Is Earl ...
Bruce Allen managed the band from their debut until 1985. Cochrane recorded six studio albums with Red Rider plus a live album, a best-of album, and a box set. By 1986, the band was billed as "Tom Cochrane & Red Rider". He would later refer to this period of his career as a stretch of "manageable success" before the release of Mad Mad World. [6]
The classic punk rock band's members went on to greater success: Chrissie Hynde later fronted The Pretenders, and Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were subsequently founding members of The Damned. Masters of the Obvious: New Orleans, Louisiana, US: 1981–present: A garage punk/pop punk/indie rock band. Matanza: Rio de Janeiro ...
A pop punk band that plays mostly alternative rock/post-grunge music. Excuse 17: Olympia, Washington, US: 1993–1995: A punk rock queercore band. The Ex: Amsterdam, Netherlands: 1979–present: A band active in a variety of punk rock-related genres such as anarcho-punk/punk jazz/post-punk. The Expelled: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK: 1981 ...
Lunatic fringe, a derogatory term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views, may refer to: "Lunatic Fringe" (song), a 1981 song by Red Rider; LFNG, a gene in the Notch pathway; Jon Moxley (born 1985), nicknamed "Lunatic Fringe", American professional wrestler