It also peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart and in Australia. The latter song was their second #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. Both songs reached #1 in the US, while She Drives Me Crazy topped the Australian Chart for 3 non-consecutive weeks. The band continued their international success with the singles 'She Drives Me Crazy' and 'Good Thing', from the 1989 album The Raw & the Cooked. During this time, Gift appeared in the movie Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In the gap between their first and second albums, Steele and Cox released an instrumental house single under the moniker 'Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet' in 1987, called 'Tired of Getting Pushed Around', which reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart and was popular on the U.S. The two songs also became hits internationally, charting in the top 40 in Europe, Canada, and Australia although they failed to make a significant impact on the US charts.įine Young Cannibals appeared as the house band in a nightclub in the 1987 comedy film Tin Men and also contributed songs to the film's soundtrack.

The band's eponymous debut album was released in 1985, spawning two UK hit singles, ' Johnny Come Home' and a cover of Mark James' ' Suspicious Minds' featuring additional vocals by Jimmy Somerville. They had difficulty obtaining a record contract, but when a video of their song 'Johnny Come Home' appeared on British TV show The Tube, recording contract offers flowed in immediately. The duo of Steele and Cox spent eight months listening to over 500 cassettes of potential singers before picking Gift. The group was formed in 1984 after the dissolution of The Beat, with whom Cox and Steele previously played. Their name came from the 1960 film All the Fine Young Cannibals starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. In 1990, the band won two Brit Awards: Best British Group, and Best British Album (for The Raw & the Cooked). Their 1989 album, The Raw & the Cooked, topped the UK, US, Australian, and Canadian album charts, and contained their two Billboard Hot 100 number ones: ' She Drives Me Crazy' and ' Good Thing'. Their self-titled 1985 debut album contained ' Johnny Come Home' and a cover of ' Suspicious Minds', two songs that were top 40 hits in the UK, Canada, Australia, and many European countries. Fine Young Cannibals ( FYC) was a British pop rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984 by bassist David Steele, guitarist Andy Cox (both formerly of The Beat), and singer Roland Gift (formerly of the Akrylykz).

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