Thomas Dolby

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Thomas Dolby is one of the great legends of electronic music. His career as a solo artist includes two of the most unique and recognizable hits of the genre,

She Blinded Me With Science and

Hyperactive!.

Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing the fall, the members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club with bruce woolley, and matthew seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his song New Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released europa and the pirate twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.

Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders. (read more)

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Track	Time	Listeners	Download
Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive	0:30	3,983	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist She Blinded Me With Science full track	3:39	26,588	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive! full track	4:08	6,885	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Europa and the Pirate Twins full track	3:19	4,211	Buy mp3

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Top Tracks, Last Week

–	1	Add this track to your playlist She Blinded Me With Science full track	656
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive! full track	190
1	3	Add this track to your playlist Europa and the Pirate Twins full track	120
1	4	Add this track to your playlist I Scare Myself full track	117
–	5	Add this track to your playlist One of Our Submarines full track	110
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive	89
2	7	Add this track to your playlist Radio Silence full track	74
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Windpower full track	74
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Airwaves full track	71
–	10	Add this track to your playlist The Flat Earth full track	65
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Flying North full track	61
7	11	Add this track to your playlist Budapest by Blimp full track	61
2	13	Add this track to your playlist Screen Kiss full track	56
1	14	Add this track to your playlist I Love You Goodbye full track	53
2	15	Add this track to your playlist Weightless full track	49
2	16	Add this track to your playlist Dissidents full track	46
10	17	Add this track to your playlist I Live In A Suitcase	42
2	17	Add this track to your playlist Commercial Breakup full track	42
3	19	Add this track to your playlist Pulp Culture	40
6	20	Add this track to your playlist White City full track	38

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Top Tracks, Last Six Months

–	1	Add this track to your playlist She Blinded Me With Science full track	8,490
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive! full track	2,239
–	3	Add this track to your playlist I Scare Myself full track	2,001
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Europa and the Pirate Twins full track	1,452
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Hyperactive	1,230
–	6	Add this track to your playlist One of Our Submarines full track	1,150
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Windpower full track	1,009
1	8	Add this track to your playlist Airwaves full track	965
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Radio Silence full track	957
–	10	Add this track to your playlist The Flat Earth full track	841
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Flying North full track	783
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Screen Kiss full track	771
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Budapest by Blimp full track	655
–	14	Add this track to your playlist I Love You Goodbye full track	646
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Weightless full track	627
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Airhead full track	582
2	17	Add this track to your playlist Commercial Breakup full track	578
2	18	Add this track to your playlist Dissidents full track	563
1	19	Add this track to your playlist Close but No Cigar	559
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Cruel full track	525
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Pulp Culture	515
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Cloudburst at Shingle Street	481
1	23	Add this track to your playlist White City full track	428
1	24	Add this track to your playlist I Live In A Suitcase	427
–	25	Add this track to your playlist Hot Sauce full track	414
1	26	Add this track to your playlist Urges full track	399
2	27	Add this track to your playlist My Brain Is Like a Sieve full track	398
–	28	Add this track to your playlist The Ability to Swing full track	397
3	29	Add this track to your playlist Mulu the Rain Forest full track	393
2	30	Add this track to your playlist Leipzig full track	381
–	31	Add this track to your playlist One of Our Submarines (Salz mix)	356
2	32	Add this track to your playlist May the Cube Be With You full track	354
3	33	Add this track to your playlist That's Why People Fall In Love full track	351
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