WEDNESDAY 3RD OCTOBER 2012

IF I HAD YOU – KORGIS

SCHOOL FRIENDS JAMES WARREN AND ANDY DAVIS DEPARTED FROM THEIR FORMER BAND’S PROGRESSIVE ROCK STYLE IN FAVOR OF A MORE CONTEMPORARY SYNTH-ROCK SOUND.

“IF I HAD YOU” DID NOT CHART IN THE UNITED STATES BUT WAS THE FIRST OF 3UKHIT SINGLES FOR THE KORGIS BETWEEN 1979 AND 1982.

THEIR SECOND, “EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME,” BECAME A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL HIT, AND USHERED IN THE NEW ROMANTIC GENRÉ, WHICH CONTINUED TO DOMINATEUKCHARTS UNTIL THE MID-1980S

INTERNAL DISPUTES CAUSED ANDY DAVIS AND OTHER MEMBERS TO LEAVE THE KORGIS IN 1985, ALTHOUGH THE BAND CONTINUED TO RECORD WITH VARIOUS LINEUP CHANGES UNDER JAMES WARREN’S LEADERSHIP UNTIL 1993.

HOWEVER, THEY WERE NEVER ABLE TO REPEAT THE SUCCESS OF THEIR EARLY 1980S HEYDAY