Their music has been influenced by groups such as The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Ramones, Blondie, as well as Dick Dale, while The Barracudas and Dolly Mixture were among their contemporaries when they started out.
The band have released a total of nine studio albums; Cowabunga (1985), The Biggest Wave (1987), The Beach Will Never Die (1990), Hang Loose with The Surfin' Lungs (1996), Goin' To Rockingham (2000), Surf, Drags & Rock'n'Roll (2005), and Full Petal Jacket (2010), Surf Factor 8 (2016) and Last Wave To Surfsville (2023), plus two compilation albums, as well as five EPs, and four singles: "Mickey's Car" (1983), "Pray For Sun" (1985), "Spirit Of Australia" (1990) and "Beach Bound" (1996).
Regular gigs followed at Soho's Alice in Wonderland club and at the Hammersmith Clarendon, which earned the group decent live reviews in Sounds, Melody Maker and NME magazines.
Later that year, the Lungs released their first "mini-album", Cowabunga, under the watchful eye of Wills again, but this time on Ace Records' Big Beat label, with the nine-track album receiving some respectable reviews in the music press.
National radio station DRS-3 were celebrating the event with a gala show and he band customised some of their songs into DRS-3 jingles, which were played regularly over the next couple of years.
In May 1988, the band were the main attraction of the Positive Mond music festival in Bern, Switzerland, and two further tours followed, plus the release of a compilation cd, Let 'Em Eat Surf.
The group also released a single off the album, "Spirit of Australia" which was coupled with "Worst Surfer on the Beach", which featured a rare lead vocal from Steve Dean.
The tracks were The Fantastic Baggies' "Tell 'Em I'm Surfin", "New York's a Lonely Town" by The Tradewinds, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by The Rubinoos and an Elvis Presley number "His Latest Flame".
2004 proved to be a good year for the Lungs as they saw two of their songs, "Surfin' to Forget About You" and"Go Little Surfer" appear on compilation CDs, while they went into the studio to record another EP, Holy Guacamole, the final collaboration with No Tomorrow.
A year later saw their sixth original album hit the streets, with Surf, Drags & Rock'n'Roll being released on new label, the Granada-based Wild Punk Records, with all 13 tracks penned by the band.
A single was planned later that year, a cover of Los Brincos' (a 1960s Spanish band) Mejor (translated as The Best) coupled with the old Brian Hyland hit Sealed with a Kiss, which was shelved, while they were also one of the main acts in the Surfer Joe Summer Festival in Livorno, Italy, which was part of an eight-date tour of the country.
A couple of years after the release of Full Petal Jacket, former drummer Ray Webb returned to the fold after filling in part-time, replacing Sputnik Weazel and in May 2013 the Lungs played the famous Cavern Club as one of many bands invited to the International Pop Overthrow event in Liverpool.