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The Dream Academy were a British band consisting of singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist (chiefly oboe, cor anglais player) Kate St John, and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. The band is most noted for their 1985 hit singles "Life in a Northern Town", "The Love Parade" and their 1985 cover of the Smiths' song "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", which was featured in the John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986.

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The Dream Academy
The Dream Academy in 1991 Left to right: Nick Laird-Clowes, Kate St John, and Gilbert Gabriel
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Alternative pop[1] folk rock[1] new wave[2]
Years active	1983 (1983)–1991 (1991) 2014, 2016–2017
Labels	Blanco y Negro Reprise Warner Bros.
Past members	Gilbert Gabriel Nick Laird-Clowes Kate St John

History

Laird-Clowes and Gabriel met each other in the late 1970s whilst the former was in a band called The Act. Their idea was to create a songscape different from the power pop groups popular at the time in the UK, by mixing instruments and sounds that had been rarely done prominently before, such as strings, woodwinds, percussion (timpani) and synthesizers. At first, Laird-Clowes and Gabriel called themselves the Politics of Paradise.^{[citation needed]}

Laird-Clowes met Kate St John (then of The Ravishing Beauties) at a party and asked her to join his band. The trio settled on the name The Dream Academy and shopped their demos for nearly two years. Their work was rejected by every record label before they finally landed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records in 1985.^{[citation needed]} Along the way, they made connections with Adam Peters and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, a friend of Laird-Clowes. Gilmour would go on to produce and/or play on two of their albums and co-write one Dream Academy song, "Twelve-Eight Angel".^{[citation needed]}

The band's first single, "Life in a Northern Town" was a worldwide success and sizeable hit in the U.S., charting at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, from an album co-produced by Gilmour.[3] The song also made number 15 in the UK Singles Chart.[4] The single was dedicated to the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake.[5][6] It was their only major chart success, though the follow up single "The Love Parade" achieved moderate success in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

The band launched a worldwide promotional tour based on the chart success of "Life in a Northern Town" and appeared on the television programmes Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, American Bandstand (with Dick Clark), MTV (interview with J. J. Jackson), and Top of the Pops. The Dream Academy's eponymous debut album also reached a wide audience in the U.S. Their two subsequent albums did not match their initial success.[3]

The band toured once, in 1991. During the same year, Gabriel and St John decided to leave the group to pursue solo musical interests and projects. Laird-Clowes ultimately decided that he would not go further under the Dream Academy name.[7]^{[better source needed]}

On 27 October 2016, Laird-Clowes and St John, accompanied by keyboardist Maxwell Cooke and drummer/percussionist Daisy Palmer, performed three shows in Japan.^{[citation needed]}

On 4 February 2017, Laird-Clowes and St John—again accompanied by Max Cooke—performed a 13-song acoustic set at The Tabernacle, Talgarth, Wales.[8]

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [9]	US [10]
1985	The Dream Academy Release date: November 1985 Label: Warner Bros. Records	58	20
1987	Remembrance Days Release date: 1987 Label: Reprise Records	—	181
1990	A Different Kind of Weather Release date: 1990 Label: Reprise Records	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Year	Album details
2000	Best of the Dream Academy Release date: 28 March 2000 Label: WEA International
2014	The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective[11] Release date: 29 July 2014 Label: Real Gone Music

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions										Album
		UK [9]	AUS [12]	BEL [13]	CAN [14] [15]	CAN AC [16]	IRE [17]	NLD [upper-alpha 1]	US [19]	US AC [20]	US Main [21]
1985	"Life in a Northern Town"	15	4	—	14	7	9	—	7	2	7	The Dream Academy
	"The Edge of Forever"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	37
	"This World"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1986	"The Love Parade"	68	76	30	41	—	—	—	36	13	37
	"Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (soundtrack)
	"Indian Summer"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Remembrance Days
1987	"The Lesson of Love"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Power to Believe"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"In the Heart"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Non-album single
1990	"Love"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	A Different Kind of Weather
1991	"Angel of Mercy"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2014	"Sunrising"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	The Morning Lasted All Day
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes

See also

• List of folk rock artists
• List of performers on Top of the Pops
• Oboes in popular music

References

External links

• VH1 artist page

На других языках

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[de] The Dream Academy

The Dream Academy war eine britische Folk-Rock- und Pop-Band, die vor allem in den 1980er Jahren erfolgreich war. Neben dem Sänger und Gitarristen Nick Laird-Clowes gehörten die Multiinstrumentalistin Kate St. John (Oboe, Englischhorn und weitere Instrumente) und Gilbert Gabriel (Keyboard) der Band an. Ihr gelang mit dem Song Life in a Northern Town ein One-Hit-Wonder.

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- [en] The Dream Academy

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