Pseudo Echo
Pseudo Echo was the first unrecorded band to appear on the
influential Australian national music TV show, Countdown.
They performed Listening in late 1983 and the song was
later released as their debut single, reaching Number 4 on the
Aussie charts in January 1984.
The band's 1987 cover version of Funky Town (a dance
tune originally recorded by Lipps Inc) was one of the most
successful Australian singles on an international level. As well
as reaching Number 1 in Australia it peaked at Number 6 on the US
chart, Number 8 in the UK, Number 2 in Canada, and went Top 20 in
Germany.
In October 1987, Pseudo Echo won the Yamaha World Popular Song
Contest in Japan with Take On The World.
Original Pseudo Echo keyboard player Tony Lugton had been a
member of James Freud's Teenage Radio Stars, and played guitar on
Freud's 1980 hit Modern Girl.
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