David Alexander "Davy" Henderson (born 1962) is a Scottish singer and guitarist whose career began in the 1970s. He is best known for his work with

The Fire Engines The Fire Engines were a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The Fire Engines were an influence on many bands that followed, including Franz Ferdinand and The Rapture, with Meat Whiplash and The Candyskins both taking their names from Fire ...

, Win,

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, and more recently

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and Port Sulphur.

Biography

Henderson was a member of The Dirty Reds in the late 1970s, and formed The Fire Engines in 1979.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 332-3 The band released an album and three singles before splitting up at the end of 1981. Henderson then formed Heartbeat with Hillary Morrison (not to be confused with the band formed by Culture Club's Jon Moss), and in the mid-1980s reunited with Fire Engines drummer Russell Burn in Win, whose profile was raised by "You've Got the Power", which featured in a

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lager television advertisement. "You've Got the Power" charted in the UK Singles Chart (in the 'next 25' section) at number 95, but reportedly sold enough copies to be a hit with Henderson stating that many copies of the record sold were excluded by Gallup from their chart data, as they thought the single was being illegally hyped in stores around Scotland. However they charted with a couple of hits in the UK charts with the single "Super Popoid Groove" reaching number 63 and album ''Uh! Tears Baby (a Trash Icon)'' getting to number 51 in 1987.Thirty Years of Salad Days: Pop art concepts come pretty easy to Davy Henderson
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'', 12 November 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-24 After a second album in 1989, Win split up. Henderson worked with Burn again on ''A Dali Surprise'', an album by Burn's Pie Finger project, before forming The Nectarine No. 9, the band releasing eight albums between 1992 and 2004. In 2004 The Fire Engines reunited for a few live shows. Henderson went on to form The Sexual Objects.Lester, Paul (2009)
New Band of the Day: The Sexual Objects (No 669)
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, 13 November 2009. Retrieved 2012-06-24 Featured in the 2015 documentary Big Gold Dream directed by Grant McPhee and the 2022 book Hungry Beat by Douglas MacIntyre and Grant McPhee with Neil Cooper

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