A former hairdresser, Score sported one of the most iconic hairdos of the ’80s, with blond hair that swooped and swirled and formed wings on the side, though these days the 60-year-old maintains a clean-shaven dome. The New Wave band from England was best known for the 1982 single “I Ran (So Far Away)” which hit heavy rotation on the airwaves in the early days of MTV. People who do this kind of thing will never have a real life I think karma in the end will come around and take whatever they have got.” It’s 18 months of work just basically thrown into the trash because some people don’t have a real life and have to steal from others. “When we had days off, we could set up a little studio and continue working,” he said. While he had recorded some of the album’s songs in studios, he said, much of it was done on the road and is contained in external computer drives that were in the van. Most devastating for Score is that he lost all the hard drive files for his first, nearly completed solo album that he’d been working on for the last 18 months. Score, who lives in Florida and is currently on an international tour with his band, believes they were followed from that night’s show because the thief went directly to their van. Score said that the hotel’s security footage shows a man - a passenger in another car - breaking into and stealing the white 1999 van with chrome alloy wheels at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, checked with the reception desk to make sure it had not been towed, and then called police. Score said they noticed the van was missing at about 9 a.m. The band played a gig in Bellflower Saturday night and then parked their 15-passenger Ford E-350 van near the reception area of a Comfort Inn in Downey around 1:45 a.m., said frontman Mike Score. Hours before they were to perform at a free outdoor concert Sunday in Woodland Hills, the ’80s band A Flock of Seagulls had up to $70,000 worth of equipment - including the sound files for a pending solo album by their lead singer - stolen at a Downey hotel.
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