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Lunatic Fringe
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Featured in Episode
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Artist(s)
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Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
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Did not chart
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Year Released
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1981
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Album
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As Far as Siam
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Writer(s)
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Tom Cochrane
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RIAA Certification
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NONE
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Sequence song appears
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Open with smuggler Morales dropping off load
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Previous Song
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"Mr. Lee"
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Next Song
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"Baja"
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"Lunatic Fringe" is a song by Red Rider, features on the album As Far as Siam in 1981 and released as a single that year. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Smuggler's Blues".
Notes[]
- Tom Cochrane wrote the song as a response to what he felt was a rise in anti-Semitism in the 1970s, as well as reading a book about the Swedish humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg, who helped many Jews escape the Holocaust.
- "Lunatic Fringe" refers to people who have views on the extreme edges of established ideologies such as Liberalism and Conservatism.
- The song was used in the 1985 movie Vision Quest, and is a staple on Classic Rock stations today.
Performers[]
- Tom Cochrane - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Ken Greer - electric, steel and six string guitars, piano, organ
- Jeff Jones - bass guitar, background vocals
- Peter Boynton - piano, synthesizers, organ, vocals
- Rob Baker - drums, percussion, harmonica