The 1980s party band are hitting the road in the UK for one last time before retiring to their tropical island of Hawaii after five decades of colourful hits and live shows. Kid Creole said ahead of ...

On Kid Creole and the Coconuts’ 1981 album Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (No. 12 on that year’s Pazz & Jop), frontman Thomas August Darnell Browder croons, “Believe me I know, when you leave New York, ...

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He has sold the writers’ royalties to hits by Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Kid Creole has sold the rights to his hits including Annie I’m Not Your Daddy to music publisher One Media iP Group, after a ...

KID Creole has become as inextricably linked with the musical Oh! What A Night as he is with his zoot suit and his Coconuts. "I've played so many shows now," says the 56-year-old New Yorker, who has ...

The disco era yielded only one important lyricist, and his name was August Darnell. He wrote tongue-in-cheek satire and sang harmony for Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. When that group broke up, ...

“Growing up in New York, I heard calypso, Motown, James Brown, rock, Latin music, and so on,” August Darnell told The New York Times in 1981. “I didn’t have to travel.” Darnell had just released his ...

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