The Flaming Mussolinis were a 1980s pop/rock band from Teesside who released two albums, and had a minor UK hit with "My Cleopatra".
They signed to CBS in-house label Portrait Records in 1985 and were tipped for big things.
The band released five singles: "Swallow Glass", "My Cleopatra" (a minor UK hit at #79), "Masuka Dan", "Girl on a Train" and "Different Kind of Love".
They also released two albums: Watching the Film (1986) and Charmed Life (1987).
Billboard touted them in 1986 as "a band with something new to say",[2] and Fanfare described Watching the Film as "good noise of the post-'87 boomlet: laid back, languid, and cleaner than most",[3] The band split up in 1988.