
Artist
Gang of Four
Gang of Four is a post-punk artist from Leeds, UK formed in 1977. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Post-Punk · Leeds, UK · Best post-punk albums
- 30
- Releases
- 1979–2026
- Active years
- 1977
- Formed

Artist
Gang of Four is a post-punk artist from Leeds, UK formed in 1977. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Post-Punk · Leeds, UK · Best post-punk albums

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Entertainment!
1979 · 15 tracks

Solid Gold
1981

Songs of the Free
1982

Hard
1983

Mall
1991

Songs Of The Free (2024 Remaster)
2024

Solid Gold (2021 Remaster)
2021

Entertainment! (2021 Remaster)
2021

Happy Now
2019

What Happens Next
2015

Content
2011

Return the Gift
2005

A Brief History Of The 20th Century
2004

Hard / Solid Gold
2003

Solid Gold / Another Day/Another Dollar
1995

Shrinkwrapped
1995

NO KINGS HERE!
Single · 2026

Elevator (Demo)
Single · 2021

ANTI HERO
EP · 2020

The Dying Rays
EP · 2020

This Heaven Gives Me Migraine
EP · 2020

Forever Starts Now
Single · 2020

Day Turns To Night
Single · 2020

Paper Thin
Single · 2019

Change The Locks
Single · 2019

To Hell With Poverty
EP · 2009

Another Day, Another Dollar (EP)
EP · 2005

Gang Of Four (Yellow EP)
EP · 2004

Entertainment! / Yellow EP
EP · 1995

Another Day/Another Dollar
EP · 1982
Gang of Four are a British post-punk group from Leeds, England. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill. In 2005, the original lineup reunited. The group had a single in the British Top 60 with “At Home He’s A Tourist” in 1979, which was blacklisted by Top Of The Pops for its use of the relatively innocuous term “rubbers”. Storming, Doc Marten-booted and fueled by a heady cocktail of Gramsci, Marx and lager, out of the Leeds art-school scene that produced The Mekons and Delta 5, they played a stripped-to-the-wire, funk-fueled permutation of punk rock. This is best exemplified by the dry production and forceful polemic of debut effort Entertainment! - Gang of Four’s later albums (Songs Of The Free and Hard) found them softening some of their more jarring qualities, and drifting towards disco. Critic Stewart Mason has called “Love Like Anthrax” (their first single, later re-recorded as “Anthrax”) not only the group’s “most notorious song” but also “one of the most unique and interesting songs of its time”; it’s…