Wang Chung are an English new wave band, formed in London in 1980 by Nick Feldman, Jack Hues and Darren Costin.

They first met when Hues answered Feldman's advertisement for musicians in the classifieds section of the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker in 1977.

Hues and Feldman then joined up with future Wang Chung drummer Darren Costin, bassist Leigh Gorman, keyboardist Simon Campbell and vocalist Glenn Gregory, to form 57 Men.

[2] According to Feldman, he came across the term "Huang Chung", meaning "yellow bell" in Mandarin, in a book he was reading, and used it as the name for the band.

The band were still a quartet at this point, with Feldman dropping the assumed "De Spig" surname and billing himself simply as "Nick".

After the failure of "Dance Hall Days", the group's manager, David Massey, convinced Arista to close their contract with Huang Chung, and instead placed the band with American label Geffen Records,[6] making the group the second UK-based act to be signed to Geffen worldwide after Asia (not counting then-New York-based John Lennon in 1980).

At this juncture, according to Hues, the band changed the spelling of their name to Wang Chung, at Geffen's suggestion, to make the pronunciation easier for English-speakers.

[2] At the same time, Nick Feldman and Darren Costin opted to be billed under their real full names; only Jack Hues kept his pseudonym.

The popularity of the latter song gave Wang Chung the ability to spend two months touring the United States on their own and with the Romantics and Berlin.

[7] In late 1983, Hues and Feldman collaborated in a one-off project with vocalist David Van Day of duo Dollar.

The band recorded "Fire in the Twilight" for the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club and contributed "There Is a Nation" for the soundtrack to First Born.

[6] With Costin gone, Hues and Feldman continued to record new material, employing producer Peter Wolf as their new drummer (although he never became an official member of the band).

[10] Hues later teamed up with Tony Banks of Genesis to form the one-off group Strictly Inc., which released a self-titled studio album in 1995.

[13] In March 2005, Wang Chung (once again consisting of Hues and Feldman) contributed "Akasha", a previously unreleased song, to the Of Hands and Hearts compilation, in response to the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami crisis.

In June 2005, Wang Chung appeared on the reality TV series Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and a cover version of "Hot in Herre" by Nelly.

[14] Beginning in June 2009, Wang Chung were a part of the Regeneration '80s tour along with ABC, Berlin, Cutting Crew, and Missing Persons.

[citation needed] In 2016, the band began to perform live with Gareth Moulton of Cutting Crew on lead vocals.

[21] In 2017, Hues returned to performing live with Wang Chung, and in 2019, they recorded a greatest hits album with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra titled Orchesography.

Two EPs consisting of the orchestral versions and remixes were released of "Dance Hall Days" and "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" on both CD and digital download.

[22] In 2024, Wang Chung headlined the Abducted by the 80's tour with 18 dates across the US and Canada with fellow 80's acts Men Without Hats, The Motels, and Naked Eyes.