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King of Fools were a U.K. based rock band that formed in 1990. Band members were Roy White (formally of early 80’s duo White and Torch, who’s 1982 single ‘Parade’ reached the lower end of the charts), David Levy on bass guitar, who had played with John Fox, Sam Brown and Rory Gallagher. Matt Byrne on Lead Guitar, Steve Monti on drums (Curve, The Jesus and Marychain, Ian Dury and the Blockheads). In September 1990 the band were the first signing to the newly formed label Imago, founded by Terry Ellis after his split with Chrysalis. The album King of Fools was completed in January 1991 and was released in the US, Australia and Europe in April 1991. ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ was the first single release from the album and as an April Fool’s prank, the label provided a promo version to radio stations and TV that featured the song played backwards with Gang of Four’s Hugo Burnham playing drums along with the reversed wall of noise. Apparently some radio stations played this version! King of Fools began a 3 month tour of Australia supporting Icehouse before moving on to headline their own shows there and although they were essentially a U.K. based band most of the groundwork had been done in the US so the decision was made to raise the band’s profile in the U.K. a short club tour was completed then a short ‘unplugged’ tour of European countries was completed with Roy White performing songs from the album acoustically. In 1992 Imago records began experiencing financial difficulties and King of Fools were dropped by the label and shortly after disbanded.