The Korgis

Formed in 1978 by former Stackridge members James Warren and Andy Davis (AKA Andrew Cresswell-Davis), the Korgis was a British pop band best known for their 1980 hit “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime”. When British folk and progressive rock band Stackridge split up in 1976, guitarist and keyboardist Davis formed the Korgis with James Warren, who had been a member of Stackridge from their 1969 inception until 1973. While the duo were the focal point of the band, the Korgis’ line-up also included Stuart Gordon (acoustic guitar, violin) and Phil Harrison (keyboards). Rather than follow on the same musical path as Stackridge, the Korgis’ quirky sound was closer to new wave and synthpop. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1979 and included their first chart hit, “If I Had You”, which reached Number 13 in the UK charts. The following year, they released their sophomore album Dumb Waiters, which contained “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime”, which rose to Number Five in the UK and reached the Top 20 in Australia and the U.S. Davis left the Korgis and Warren, Gordon, and Harrison recorded their third album, Sticky George, which was released in 1981. While singles like “All The Love In The World” should have matched previous successes, they were not hits and after one final single, “Don’t Look Back”, The Korgis split up. James Warren released a few more singles as either the Korgis or James Warren & the Korgis, but by the time his first solo album, Burning Questions, was released in 1986, he had dropped the Korgis name. In 1992, Davis and Warren reunited as the Korgis and released the album This World’s For Everyone. In 2006, they released the single “Something About the Beatles”. Since then, Davis and Warren have resurrected Stackridge and the Korgis over the years for live shows, acoustic releases and more.

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