The Fixx

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The Fixx
General information
origin London , England
Genre (s) New wave , rock
founding 1979 (1979–1980 as The Portraits)
Website www.thefixx.com
Founding members
singing
 Cy Curnin (since 1979)
Drums
 Adam Woods (since 1979)
Current occupation
singing
 Cy Curnin (since 1979)
Drums
 Adam Woods (since 1979)
Keyboard
 Rupert Greenall (since 1979)
guitar
 Jamie West-Oram (since 1980)
bass
 Dan K. Brown (1983–1994, since 2008)
former members
guitar
 Tony McGrail (1979-1980)
bass
 Russell Mckenzie (1979-1980)
bass
 Charlie Barrett (1981-1982)
bass
 Alfie Agius (1982-1983)
bass
 Chris Tait (1995-2003 as a session musician)
bass
 Gary Tibbs (2003-2008)

The Fixx is a British new wave band.

The band had their greatest successes in the eighties. Especially in the USA she was at times more famous than in her own country. The best-known tracks include One Thing Leads to Another, a number 4 hit in the US, Red Skies, Less Cities More Moving People and Built for the Future . The essential Stratocaster guitar riffs by Jamie West-Oram, a precise and economical rhythm section as well as the colorful background with unusual synthesizer sounds are characteristic for the sound of The Fixx. In the sometimes demanding texts by Cy Curnin, social and political awareness is expressed. Although some of their albums were produced by the then very successful producer Rupert Hine , the band did not make a breakthrough in the commercial league.

history

Singer Cy Curnin and drummer Adam Woods founded the band in 1979 in London under the name "The Portraits". In the same year keyboardist Rupert Greenall, guitarist Tony McGrail and bassist Russell Mckenzie joined the group. At the end of 1980 the name "The Fix" was adopted. To avoid associations with drugs, it became "The Fixx" a year later. Also in 1980, Jamie West-Oram replaced Tony McGrail as guitarist, while the position of bassist was repeatedly filled. In the most successful phase in the first half of 1989 and since 2008, Dan K. Brown occupies this position. In between, session musicians were used as bassists who were not officially part of the group.

The first album "Shuttered Room" (1982) produced a Billboard Hot 100 hit through "Stand or Fall" . With "Saved By Zero" from the follow-up album "Reach The Beach" (1983) the band reached the top 20 in America for the first time. "One Thing Leads To Another" is the only top 10 hit in the US to date. With "Sign Of Fire" "Reach The Beach" contained a third US Top 40 hit. With "Are We Ourselves" from the album "Phantoms" (1984) the group again reached the top 20 in the USA. The album includes another US hit with "Sunshine in the Shade". Two years later the group made it into the US top 20 for the last time with "Secret Separation" from the album "Walkabout" (1986). The British were later in 1989 with "Driven Out" from the album "Calm Animals" and in 1991 with "How Much Is Enough?" from the album "Ink" (1991) again in the Hot 100, but could not quite build on the success of the first half of the 1980s.

The Fixx were just as successful in their neighboring country Canada as in the United States . There "One Thing Leads To Another" even took first place. The British were only moderately successful in their own homeland: Two singles made it between 50 and 60, and two more between 80 and 90. It was similar in Australia .

Although the pieces by The Fixx were and still can be heard on German radio, not a single single made it into the German single charts. At least the album "Phantoms" was listed at position 59 in 1984 for a week.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1982 Shuttered room - UK54 (6 weeks)
UK 		US106 (51 weeks)
US
1983 Reach the beach - UK91 (1 week)
UK 		US8th
platinum
platinum

(54 weeks)US
1984 Phantoms DE59 (1 week)
DE 		- US19th
gold
gold

(29 weeks)US
1986 Walkabout - - US30 (21 weeks)
US
1988 Calm Animals - - US72 (18 weeks)
US
1991 Ink - - US111 (10 weeks)
US

more publishments

  • 1998: Elemental
  • 1999: 1011 Woodland - Best of Unplugged!
  • 2003: Want that Life
  • 2012: Beautiful Friction

Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1987 React - - US110 (7 weeks)
US

more publishments

  • 1995: In Concert (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
  • 1997: Real Time Stood Still
  • 2002: Stand or Fall

Compilations

  • 1989: One Thing Leads to Another
  • 1994: Missing Links
  • 1999: Ultimate Collection: The Fixx
  • 1999: Elemental + 1011 Woodland
  • 2000: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Fixx
  • 2000: Extended Versions
  • 2001: Happy Landings and Lost Tracks
  • 2002: Then and Now
  • 2004: Stage One
  • 2005: The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Anthology

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1982 Stand or Fall
Shuttered Room 		- UK54 (4 weeks)
UK 		US76 (8 weeks)
US
Red Skies
Shuttered Room 		- UK57 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
1983 Saved by Zero
Reach the Beach 		- - US20 (16 weeks)
US
One Thing Leads to Another
Reach the Beach 		- UK86 (3 weeks)
UK 		US4 (19 weeks)
US
The Sign of Fire
Reach the Beach 		- - US32 (13 weeks)
US
1984 Are We Ourselves?
Phantoms 		- - US15 (15 weeks)
US
Sunshine in the Shade
Phantoms 		- - US69 (5 weeks)
US
1986 Secret Separation
Walkabout 		- UK83 (3 weeks)
UK 		US19 (14 weeks)
US
1988 Driven Out
Calm Animals 		- - US55 (10 weeks)
US
1991 How Much Is Enough?
Ink 		- - US35 (11 weeks)
US

more publishments

  • 1979: Little Women (as The Portraits)
  • 1980: Hazards in the Home (as The Portraits)
  • 1981: Lost Planes (as The Fix)
  • 1982: Some People
  • 1984: Deeper and Deeper
  • 1985: Less Cities, More Moving People
  • 1986: Built for the Future
  • 1987: Don't Be Scared
  • 1989: Precious Stone
  • 1991: No One Has to Cry
  • 2000: One Thing Leads to Another (J. Benitez Remix)
  • 2012: Anyone Else

Music in movies

The Fixx's music has also been featured in feature films and television series. Only contributions that could be seen in Germany are listed.

"Saved by Zero" was played in:

"One Thing Leads to Another" was played in:

Other titles:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Fixx on www.musik-sammler.de
  2. ^ The Fixx on Billboard
  3. Jump up ↑ Canadian charts
  4. ↑ The Fixx in the British charts
  5. ↑ German single charts
  6. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE UK US
  7. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  8. ^ The Fixx on IMDB
  9. ↑ Pieces of music in Cold Case
  10. ↑ Music Knight Rider Season 2