The Flying Pickets

The Flying Pickets are a British a cappella vocal group which had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 on the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of Yazoo's track "Only You".

[4] The members of the group were internationally renowned for their flamboyant appearance: Hibbard's huge sideburns, Stripe's thick eye-liner, and the others showing off gaudy suits and large hats.

In 1987, the Flying Pickets sang the title song (in Latin, Dives in Omnia) and endtitles reprise to Porterhouse Blue, in the style of a medieval university drinking-song.

Hibbard, the group's founder and lead singer, pursued a career as a television actor, making a guest appearance in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen.

His first regular TV role came in 1989, playing petty criminal "Chunky" in three series of Manchester-based comedy drama Making Out (1989-1991), followed by a two-year stint in Coronation Street as garage mechanic Doug Murray.

Other appearances include Minder, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Satellite City, Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm as well as the youth drama Pam Fi, Duw?

[7] Brett toured with the English Shakespeare Company and appeared as Mad Mike the Mechanic in the BBC children's TV programme Marlene Marlowe Investigates.

[10] Gittins worked in bread delivery after leaving the band, then decided to move to Australia where he took a job as a stage mechanist at The Victorian State Theatre.