High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tonight were a five piece new wave band, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Although only active from June 1977 to January 1979, they played a small but significant part, in the ever-changing music scene in the late 1970s. They had a hit single, "Drummer Man", in February 1978.Tonight along with The Rich Kids, were the first acts to be described as power pop, a new UK music genre term in 1978, initially mentioned by Charles Catchpole, in the Evening Standard, 'Rock Notes' section, on 17 January 1978. The term was borrowed from Pete Townshend's description of The Who's music in 1967, and in 1978 put forward as a musical genre, by the press/promotion office at WEA in London, to describe their new upcoming acts at that time.As punk morphed into new wave (December 1977 - January 1978) Tonight scored the first hit for the power pop movement in February 1978, with "Drummer Man" reaching No.14 in the UK Singles Chart. Their next single "Money (That's Your Problem)" charted well outside of the Top 40; but two more singles were released plus an album was recorded.

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