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, ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting September 12th, 2000 - Buy Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985 DVD ...

Although August Darnell briefly became an ’80s U.K. pop star, back home this Bronx-born bandleader is mostly remembered for Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, a swanky, quasi-big-band ensemble that ...

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CHERCHEZ LA FEMME - a new musical extravaganza inspired by the wildly popular 80's pop song and the Bronx native who wrote it, Kid Creole - will be given its world premiere production by La MaMa, with ...

Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his ...

In the '80s Soundtrack Madness competition, Phil Collins Against All Odds from drew a tough first round draw against Berlin's Take My Breath Away and lost, but would you be curious to know about other ...

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, ...

Last Saturday, the block outside Webster Hall was filled with tattooed punks smoking cigarettes before a four o’clock matinee. On the corner stood August Darnell, 65 and wearing two-tone dress shoes ...