This isn't terrible but I found the lead singer's voice grating, so I turned it off about halfway through.
Pilot were from Edinburgh. "Magic" reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, #11 on the UK singles chart, and #1 nationally in Canada. Their followup, "January", made it to #1 in the UK, Australia, and Ireland, but didn't chart in Canada or Toronto and made it to only #87 on the Hot 100. (I didn't feel a need to listen to this either.)
The band had two other songs on the lower reaches of the top 40 in the UK before all of its members went on to other projects. In 2014, the three surviving members of the band reunited and produced an album (co-founder Billy Lyall had passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1989). Co-founder David Paton is still fronting a touring version of Pilot.
Created September 28, 2026.