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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 ...
Thomas William Cochrane OC OM (/ ˈ k ɒ k r ə n / KOK-rən; born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician best known as the frontman for the rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. [1]
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.
Pink Floyd are an English rock band who recorded material for fifteen studio albums, three soundtrack albums, three live albums, eight compilation albums, four box sets, as well as material that, to this day, remains unreleased during their five decade career. There are currently 222 songs on this list.
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Tom Cochrane and Red Rider (1986) Over 60 Minutes with Red Rider (1987) Victory Day (1988) Professional ratings; Review scores; ... "Lunatic Fringe" ...
Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients’ brain waves. The tech could eventually allow for communication without words. Erin Prater. August 15, 2023 at 11:00 AM.