The Flying Lizards - Her Story, 1979

Experimental British “pop” group led by producer David Cunningham and joined by a loose collective of avant-garde personnel on instruments and vocals, most notably journalist and reggae/postpunk musician Vivien Goldman. Aside from the well-known, emotionless hit covers, the debut album also contains two wonderful songs written and sung by Goldman, including “The Window” and “Her Story”, which also contains a line that inspired the Public Image Limited single about bands selling out their artistic principles for commercial success - “This Is Not A Love Song” from 1983 (“But you can still make money, by singing sweet songs of love… this is a love song”). Ironically, it gave PiL their biggest international hit single.