Cry Boy Cry

Blue Zoo began recording at Alaska studios in Waterloo, owned by Pat Collier, original bass player for punk band The Vibrators. Collier produced the bands single, Ivory Towers. Their first TV appearance was a live performance on the Oxford Road Show in Manchester where they performed, Love Moves in Strangeways, The Attic and what was to be their third single I’m your Man. This was their debut UK hit which, despite being championed by Radio 1’s Peter Powell, stalled at number 55. Enter Tim Friese Green who had first worked with the rock band Praying Mantis and Irish punk rockers Stiff Little Fingers. He began working with Blue Zoo and collaborated at Battery studios in Willesden resulting in the recording of two tracks, the provocative John’s Lost and the catchy Cry Boy Cry which was a re-working of a song previously named Turn and Face The Wall. It reached number 13 in the UK and a respectable number six in Israel which led to a short tour taking in a run of shows at the Coliseum in central Tel Aviv. A solitary top 20 hit for this archetypally early 80s band. Solid slab of new wave synth pop with reassuringly daft lyrics in the Aussie Pic Sleeve.