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* CityShoutOuts: In live shows of "Everybody Have Fun Tonight", they'll amend the song's opening line, "I'll drive a million miles to be with you tonight", to "I drove a million miles to be in [locale name] tonight".
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* BilingualBonus: The band's name means "yellow bell" in Mandarin Chinese, which is also the first note in the Chinese classical music scale. Doubles as a MeaningfulName.

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* BilingualBonus: The band's name means "yellow bell" in Mandarin Chinese, which is also the first note in the Chinese classical [[{{Scales}} music scale.scale]]. Doubles as a MeaningfulName.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Wang Chung, mid 1980s (l-r: Jack Hues, Nick Feldman).]]

-->''"We were so in phase''\\

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-->-- "Dance Hall Days"
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-->''We were so in phase''\\

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''Could believe, do, and share in what was true''

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-->''Can you tell me what a Wang Chung is?''

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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Huang Chung]]''[[note]]The band originally spelled their name this way before it was changed to make it easier for English speakers to pronounce it.[[/note]] (1982)

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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Huang Chung]]''[[note]]The band originally spelled their name this way before it was changed to make it easier for English speakers to pronounce it.[[/note]] Chung]]'' (1982)
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* ''Huang Chung'' (1982)

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* ''Huang Chung'' ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Huang Chung]]''[[note]]The band originally spelled their name this way before it was changed to make it easier for English speakers to pronounce it.[[/note]] (1982)

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* ''Abducted by the 80's'' (2010)

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* ''Abducted by the 80's'' (2010)(EP; 2010)



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Stage Names: Jeremy Allan Ryder, anyone?



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* StageNames: Jack Hues was born as, and legally still is, Jeremy Allan Ryder.
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--> ''"We were so in vies''\\
''In our dance hall days,''\\
''We were cool on cries''\\
''When all you and everyone we knew,''\\

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--> ''"We were so in vies''\\
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''We were cool on cries''\\
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''When all you I, you, and everyone we knew,''\\knew''\\
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* JumpCut: Every frame of the music video for "Everybody Have Fun Tonight", directed by [[Music/TenCC Godley & Creme]], features a jump cut.
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''Could believe, do, and share in what was true?"''

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''Could believe, do, and share in what was true?"''
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--> ''"We were so in vies''\\
''In our dance hall days,''\\
''We were cool on cries''\\
''When all you and everyone we knew,''\\
''Could believe, do, and share in what was true?"''

Wang Chung is a British {{new wave|Music}} band founded in London in 1980, originally comprised of Jack Hues, Nick Feldman, and Darren Costin. The band found their greatest success in the US, with five Top 40 hits there, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" (No. 16 in the summer of 1984), "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" (No. 2 in 1986) and "Let's Go!" (No. 9 in 1987).

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!! Discography:

* ''Huang Chung'' (1982)
* ''Points on the Curve'' (1984)
* ''Film/ToLiveAndDieInLA'' (soundtrack) (1985)
* ''Mosaic'' (1986)
* ''The Warmer Side of Cool'' (1989)
* ''Abducted by the 80's'' (2010)
* ''Tazer Up!'' (2012)
* ''Orchesography'' (2019)

!! Dance Hall Tropes:

* BilingualBonus: The band's name means "yellow bell" in Mandarin Chinese, which is also the first note in the Chinese classical music scale. Doubles as a MeaningfulName.
* MyspeldRokband: The band's name was originally spelled "Huang Chung" as on their debut album, but it was later changed to Wang Chung at the recommendation of their label in order to make the pronunciation easier for English-speakers (and also supposedly because people kept calling them [[EmbarrassingNickname "Hung Chung"]]).
* PopStarComposer: The band composed the soundtrack to Creator/WilliamFriedkin's ''To Live and Die in L.A.'', while Jack Hues himself composed the soundtrack to Friedkin's later film ''Film/{{The Guardian|1990}}''.

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