King Kurt

UK

Formed: 1981

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: Rockabilly Revival, Alternative Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll/Roots, Rockabilly

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Although psychobilly pranksters King Kurt are best remembered for "Destination Zululand," the rambunctious smash with which they stormed the U.K. chart in 1984, to recall them purely as one-hit wonders is to decry another four years of achievement -- four further singles and two full albums also bothered the charts before the group finally faded away during 1987. But even that only begins to tell the band's story, for it wasn't on cold, impersonal wax that King Kurt were at their blistering, mystifying best. It was in concert, where gigs became...

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