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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.
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 ...
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.
Red Rider included Ken Greer, Jeff Jones, Peter Boynton and Rob Baker. 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".
Over 60 Minutes with Red Rider is a compilation album for the Canadian rock band Red Rider, which was released in 1987. Track listing ... "Lunatic Fringe" ...
Tom Cochrane and Red Rider is the fifth studio album by the Canadian rock band Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, released in 1986 [1] The album earned Cochrane two Juno Awards for Composer of the Year and Group of the Year. A remastered version was released by EMI in 2004.
"Brain Damage" is the ninth track [nb 1] from English rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. [2] [3] It was written and sung by Roger Waters (with harmonies by David Gilmour), who would continue to sing it on his solo tours. Gilmour sang the lead vocal when Pink Floyd performed it live on their 1994 tour (as can be heard ...
Breaking Curfew is the fourth studio album by the Canadian rock band Red Rider, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music).The album was recorded and mixed at Metalworks Studios and E.S.P. Studio in Toronto, Ontario and Startling Studios in England.