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Gang of Four are an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Leeds. The original members were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. There have been many different line-ups including, among other notable musicians, Sara Lee, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Mark Heaney. After a brief lull in the 1980s, different constellations of the band recorded two studio albums in the 1990s. Between 2004 and 2006 the original line-up was reunited; Gill toured using the name between 2012 and his death in 2020. In 2021, the band announced that King, Burnham, and Lee would be reuniting for a US tour in 2022 with David Pajo on guitar and Sara Lee returning to the band. They continue to perform live, including at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, CA; headlining Luna Fest in Coimbra, Portugal, a UK Tour in October '23, and will be in Australia and beyond in 2024.

The band played a stripped-down mix of punk rock, funk and dub, with a lyrical emphasis on the social and political ills of society. Gang of Four are widely considered one of the leading bands of the late 1970s/early 1980s post-punk movement. Their debut album, Entertainment!, was ranked by Rolling Stone as the fifth greatest punk album of all time and at number 483 in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2004, the album was listed by Pitchfork Media as the 8th best album of the 1970s and, in 2020, by Pop Matters as "Best Post Punk album ever". Entertainment! continues to be influential, and was voted 49th in Rolling Stones' 2023 poll of "100 Best Debut Albums of All time". Their early 80s albums (Songs of the Free and Hard) found them softening some of their more jarring qualities, and drifting towards dance-punk and disco. David Fricke of Rolling Stone described Gang of Four as "probably the best politically motivated band in rock & roll.".

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1979Entertainment!Gang of Four4.3515
1981Solid GoldGang of Four3.6510
1982Songs of the FreeGang of Four4.57
1983HardGang of Four3.653
1991MallGang of Four22
1995ShrinkwrappedGang of Four2
2005Return the GiftGang of Four4
2011ContentGang of Four26
2015What Happens NextGang of Four32
2019Happy NowGang of Four32

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1990A Brief History of the Twentieth CenturyGang of Four56
1995Entertainment! & Yellow EPGang of Four2
1995Solid Gold & Another Day/Another DollarGang of Four2
1998100 Flowers BloomGang of Four1
2003Hard / Solid GoldGang of Four1
202177–81Gang of Four2

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1984At the PalaceGang of Four3
1990The Peel Sessions AlbumGang of Four3

Single

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1978Damaged GoodsGang of Four1
1979At Home He’s a TouristGang of Four1
1980Outside the Trains Don’t Run on TimeGang of Four1
1981To Hell With PovertyGang of Four2
1981What We All WantGang of Four1
1982Call Me UpGang of Four1
1982I Love a Man in a UniformGang of Four1
1982Lord Make Me a Cowboy / Black Balloons DropGang of Four / Five or Six1
1990Money TalksGang of Four2
1991SatelliteGang of Four1
1995TattooGang of Four2
2008Second LifeGang of Four1
2015Die StaubkornsammlungHerbert Grönemeyer + Gang of Four1
2019Paper ThinGang of Four1
2021Natural’s Not in ItTom Morello, Serj Tankian & Gang of Four1
2021I Love a Man in a UniformHerbert Grönemeyer, Alex Silva & Gang of Four1
2021Damaged GoodsIDLES & Gang of Four2

Single + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1984Is It Love (live, 1984-05: The Palace, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA)Gang of Four1

Single + Remix

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1983Is It Love (extended dance remix)Gang of 41

EP

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1980Gang of Four ("Yellow EP")Gang of Four4
1982Another Day/Another DollarGang of Four4
2008Second LifeGang of Four1
2010Free EPGang of Four1
2018ComplicitGang of Four1
2020YellowGang of Four1
2020This Heaven Gives Me MigraineGang of Four1
2020Anti HeroGang of Four1

EP + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1986The Peel Sessions EPGang of Four1

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