Editing Fun Boy Three (section)

==History==
Fun Boy Three reduced the [[ska]] sound that they and [[Jerry Dammers]] had crafted with great success with [[the Specials]] and initially took a more minimal approach with the focus on percussion and vocals.<ref name="Green">Green, Jim & Robbins, Ira "[http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=fun_boy_three Fun Boy Three]", ''[[Trouser Press]]'', retrieved 27 January 2010</ref> For their second album they assembled a six-piece backing group including a [[cello|cellist]] and a [[trombone]] player, allowing the record to feature more diverse and expansive arrangements, and also enabling them to play live instead of being a purely studio group as previously. The band enjoyed six UK top 20 singles, starting with "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" and including the top 10 hits "[[T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)|It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)]]", "[[The Tunnel of Love (Fun Boy Three song)|Tunnel of Love]]" and "[[Our Lips Are Sealed]]".<ref name="charts">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/19346/fun-boy-three/ |title=Fun Boy Three |publisher=Official Charts }}</ref> They created two albums of which the eponymous [[Fun Boy Three (album)|debut]] was the more successful. The follow-up album ''[[Waiting (Fun Boy Three album)|Waiting]]'', produced by [[David Byrne]], was well-received critically.<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r7880|pure_url=yes}} Review] from [[Allmusic]]</ref><ref name="rcreview_Wait">[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1944 Fun Boy Three] from Christgau's website</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/10/arts/the-pop-life-090349.html?&pagewanted=all | title= The Pop Life | author=Robert Palmer | work=[[The New York Times]]| date=10 August 1983 |access-date=2009-11-11 | author-link= Robert Palmer (American writer)}}</ref>

Following the trio's last UK hit "Our Lips Are Sealed", co-written by Terry Hall and [[Jane Wiedlin]] of [[the Go-Go's]], who had a U.S. hit with the song a year earlier, they then toured the United States and split afterwards.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

They were credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of [[Bananarama]], whom Hall first saw in ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]'' magazine.{{cn|date=July 2022}} The three women provided credited [[choir|chorus]] vocals on the hit "[[T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)|It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)]]"; the Fun Boy Three later sang on the Bananarama song "[[Really Saying Something]]", both reaching the top 5 in the UK.<ref name="charts" />