N°28 FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS - I'M NOT THE MAN I USED TO BE

The Fine Young Cannibals were a reputated Brittish band back in the eighties and the name of the band related to, as did many bands in the past, a movie called All The Fine Young Cannibals.

David Steel and Andy Cox were the original founders and when Roland Gift joined in after a search on MTV for a lead singer FYC was born. On their 1985 debut album they scored with a cover of Elvis’ Suspicious Minds and Johny Come Jome. Touring asked a lot from Gift, who also invested in his acting career and in between gigs with FYC the founding members would also perform in a side project called Two Men, A Drum And A Trumpet. 

 

In 1988 they scored more hits with their second and final album The Raw And The Cooked. On this album we find beauties as She Drives Me Crazy and Not The Man I Used To Be. Gift would spend more time acting than singing and the group put the FYC project on a permanent hold.

Some more remix albums and a greatest hits album would follow until our actor, Roland Gift, took over the complete group name and continued a solo project under the same name. He’d never score any hits solo.