Ricky formed in Portsmouth, England in the autumn of 2000.
The band's first release was a self-funded mini-album, released in January 2002, titled You Set The Scene, named after the last track on Forever Changes, an album by Love.
Between 2004 and 2006, they had a number of small chart hits[1] on the Garcia and Beat Crazy record labels, including a Top 40 hit in January 2005 with "Stop Knocking The Walls Down".
This song was a double-A sided single, backed with "The Journey" by Ian Prowse's band Amsterdam[2] and would give Ricky their only week in the Top 40.
In 2006, they released "We Are England", a football song,[3] which reached number 54 in the UK pop chart;[4] later in 2006 Ricky disbanded.