Fire Island is the name of an English house music duo, made up of producers and remixers Pete Heller and Terry Farley. Both are prolific musicians who have an extensive list of remixes to their credit, using both the Fire Island moniker and billed as Heller & Farley Project, Stylus Trouble or Farley & Heller.
As Fire Island they hit number one on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1998 with "Shout to the Top", a song originally recorded by The Style Council in 1985. It also peaked at number 23 in the UK Singles Chart. Lead vocals on the track were provided by Loleatta Holloway.
The group collaborated with pop artist Michael Jackson for the song "Money", which appeared on his internationally best-selling album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix.
Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or island:
“And where two raging fires meet together;
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)