Biography

Proto-punk in spirit, folky in instrumentation, Kevin Coyne’s sweetly eccentric and touching songs blended humor, hooks, and humanity. After getting his start in the band Siren (a favorite of DJ John Peel), he released his mostly solo-acoustic first album in 1972, and shortly after recruited a band that included future Police guitarist Andy Summers. In the mid-‘80s Coyne moved to Germany where he continued to release uncompromising albums as well as volumes of prose and poetry, and collaborated with such like-minded artists as the Mekons and Dagmar Krause.

Top Tracks

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• America

• Children's Crusade

• Fly

• Games, Games, Games

• God Watches

• I'm Into Your Game

• I'm Will

• Learn To Swim - Learn To Drown

• Shangri-la

• Sugar Candy Taxi

• The Old Fashioned Love Song

• Whispering Desert

Discography

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• Room Full of Fools

  Ruf Records / Ruf

  2000

• Sugar Candy Taxi

  Platinum Entertainment

  1999

• The Adventures of Crazy Frank

  Golden Hind

  1995

• Tough and Sweet

  Rockport Records

  1993

• Wild Tiger Love

  Rockport Records

  1991

• Romance-Romance

  Koch Records

  1990

• Legless in Manila

  Rockport Records

  1984

• Beautiful Extremes Et Cetera

  Cherry Red

  1983

• Politicz

  Cherry Red

  1982

• Pointing the Finger

  Cherry Red

  1981

• Bursting Bubbles

  Virgin

  1980

• Sanity Stomp

  Virgin

  1980

• Babble

  Virgin

  1979

• Dynamite Daze

  EMI Music Distribution

  1978

• Millionaires & Teddy Bears

  Virgin

  1978

• Heartburn

  Virgin

  1976

• In Living Black & White

  Virgin

  1976

• Matching Head & Feet

  EMI Music Distribution

  1975

• Blame It on the Night

  Virgin

  1974

• Marjory Razorblade

  Charisma

  1973

• Case History

  Air Mail Music

  1971