Texas

Texas is a pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were founded by Johnny McElhone in 1986 and had their performing debut in March 1988 at Scotland's University of Dundee. They took their name from the 1984 Wim Wen

Texas is a pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were founded by Johnny McElhone in 1986 and had their performing debut in March 1988 at Scotland's University of Dundee. They took their name from the 1984 Wim Wenders movie Paris, Texas. Their musical sound went from blues rock from debut album "Southside", via blue eyed soul of "White on Blonde" to the disco pop of "Red book".

Texas scored a worldwide hit in 1989 with their debut single "I Don't Want a Lover". This was taken from their debut album "Southside" which went on to sell 2 million copies worldwide. The follow up albums Mother's Heaven (1991) and Ricks Road (1993) were less successful and failed to provide the band with any further big hit singles in the UK. Although these albums sold well in France and Spain this was not sufficient for the record company meaning the band faced a lot of pressure with their fourth release. In the meantime Ellen DeGeneres had approached the band and Sharleen and Ally flew to the US to redo a song off the third album, "So called friend", which went on to become the theme song to US sitcom "Ellen".