Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby is an English musician and producer who is best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!". He has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.

His first solo album, The Golden Age of Wireles, was released in 1982 and included the songs "Europa and the Pirate Twins", "Airwaves", and "Radio Silence", but did not include the album's signature hit, "She Blinded Me With Science". After the five-song EP "Blinded By Science" introduced the catchy single, "The Golden Age Of Wireless" was subsequently re-released with the single on it.With its accompanying video, "She Blinded Me with Science" became Dolby's most commercially successful single, reaching No. 5 on The Billboard Hot 100.

Beginning in 1983, Dolby collaborated with a number of artists in an occasional studio-bound project called Dolby's Cube which released the singles "Get Out Of My Mix" in 1983 and "May The Cube Be With You" in 1985, and did soundtrack work for the film Howard The Duck in 1986.

In 1984, Dolby released his second LP, The Flat Earth, which peaked at No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 35 on the Billboard Album Chart in the US. The album included a cover of the Dan Hicks song "I Scare Myself". "Hyperactive!", originally written for Michael Jackson, was the first and most successful single from the album, peaking at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Dolby's highest-charting single in his home country.

His next release, Aliens Ate My Buick, was released in 1988 and the first single was "Airhead", a satirical song about a stereotypical young-and-rich Californian woman, which peaked at No. 53. The second single, "Hot Sauce", a cover of a George Clinton song, peaked at No. 60. There was one more single, "My Brain Is Like A Sieve", which peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard Album Chart.

For Astronauts & Heretics featured the song "Close But No Cigar" which reached No. 22 on the UK charts along with "I Love You Goodbye", and "Silk Pyjamas".

In 2006, he performed his first solo public show in 15 years and launched an American tour, the Sole Inhabitant Tour. Parts of the tour were captured for a "live" CD and DVD.

The 2007 UK Sole Inhabitant tour included three new songs previously played on the US tour, one called "Your Karma Hit My Dogma" another called "Jealous Thing" and a cover version of The Special AKA's "What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend".

A CD + DVD set, The Singular Thomas Dolby, was released in May 2009. The DVD contains all the video singles which were available on the original release of The Golden Age Of Video, as well as the videos for the songs "Silk Pyjamas", "I Love You Goodbye", and "Close But No Cigar". The Golden Age Of Wireless and The Flat Earth were reissued and remastered later that year with numerous previously unreleased bonus tracks. The former was a two disc set including a DVD of the complete "Live Wireless" video.

In 2010, Dolby began work on a new studio album, A Map of the Floating City which is divided into three parts The first two parts initially made available to members of The Flat Earth Society, Dolby's online community. The first EP, Amerikana, was released digitally in June 2010. The second EP, Oceanea, was released in November 2010. The third section of the album, Urbanoia, was not released as a download or physical CD, but the songs were premiered online as part of the Floating City game.