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Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go!
In 1980 Adam Ant, looking to turn cult success into commercial adoration, thought it would be a good idea to get ex-Sex Pistols and New York Dolls manager, Malcolm McLaren to manage Adam & The Ants. Unfortunately, one of the first things he did was to sack [...]

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The Psychedelic Furs – Sister Europe
The Psychedelic Furs are probably best remembered for ‘Pretty In Pink’, and only then because of a more glossy remixed re-release in 1986 as the main title track of a John Hughes blockbuster teen film of the same name.
But there was a lot more to the Psychedelic Furs, and [...]

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This is Maria McKee’s band Lone Justice from 1985, with the fabulous Tom Petty song Ways To Be Wicked.
Maia looks so young! But what a voice.
Lone Justice – Ways To Be Wicked

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Gang Of Four – To Hell With Poverty, Live in Germany, 1983
For a short period of time the politically motivated Marxist-Leninist group Gang Of Four produced some great music while signed to EMI, the largest capitalist record company in the world.  Unfortunately, their first album, Entertainment was by far there best and for me, they [...]

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Stiff Little Fingers were a post-punk punk band with a bundle of Belfast attitude.  They started out as a school band called Highway Star, named after a Deep Purple song.  They formed Stiff Little Fingers in 1977, and in 1978 found instant success while touring the UK supporting the Tom Robinson Band.  In 1979 they [...]

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