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Bow Wow Wow album cover photo, a re-creation of The Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet
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Bow Wow Wow album cover photo, a re-creation of The Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet

Bow Wow Wow was a 1980s New Wave band organized by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980 whose music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound".[1] McLaren persuaded guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman and percussionist David Barbarossa of the original lineup of Adam & the Ants to leave Adam Ant and form a new group, fronted by teen singer Annabella Lwin. [1] Among the regular faces at the band's early London gigs were Latin songwriter/producer Richard Daniel Roman and Boy George, then known as Lieutenant Lush. McLaren was also going to use the latter (later of Culture Club fame) as a second lead singer, but he was deemed to be "too wild" for the band [citation needed].

McLaren discovered fourteen year old Lwin while she was working at her parents' laundrette, and the group's sound was a mix of her "girlish squeal", Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, New Romantic pop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music influenced tom tom drum beats. The band's most popular hit was the New Wave staple, "I Want Candy" (originally a 1965 hit by The Strangeloves). "I Want Candy" was featured in an early music video on MTV and also in the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Their most notorious recording was "Sexy Eiffel Tower", a bold ode to masturbation, including excitedly heavy breathing and orgasmic moans; this was a song that went far beyond the slightly later Cyndi Lauper hit "She Bop", about similar subject matter. [2] The group released three full-length albums before Lwin quit to pursue a solo career,[3] or was kicked out,[2] in 1983.

Ashman went on to form Chiefs of Relief, and in 1995 died from diabetes complications. In the '90s, Barbarossa joined Republica. Lwin and Gorman reunited to release Wild in the U.S.A. in 1998, adding guitarist Dave Calhoun and drummer Eshan Khadaroo. [1]

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[edit] Controversy

Their label at the time, EMI, refused to promote the cassingle "C30, C60, C90, Go" because it allegedly promoted home taping,[2] as Side B was blank. EMI dropped the group after releasing its second single "W.O.R.K." [2]

Lwin's mother alleged exploitation of a minor for immoral purposes and instigated a Scotland Yard investigation. As a result the band was only allowed to leave England after McLaren promised not to promote Lwin as a "sex kitten". This included an agreement to not use a nude photograph depicting Lwin as the woman in Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), though the picture was used as the cover of an EP in 1982. [2] (The photo was originally to be used for 1981's See Jungle!..., and the cover was used as planned in some European countries - such as Holland - though not in the UK or the US.) Lwin was almost made to quit the band by her family over the publication of the photo, particularly as she was only fifteen when the photo was taken.

[edit] Discography (UK)

[edit] Albums

  • Your Cassette Pet (EMI WOW 1, cassette EP) Dec 1980
  1. Louis Quatorze
  2. Gold He Said
  3. Uomo Sex Al Apache
  4. I Want My Baby On Mars
  5. Sexy Eiffel Tower
  6. Giant Sized Baby Thing
  7. Fools Rush In
  8. Radio G. String
  • See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy. (RCA RCALP 3000, 33rpm LP) Oct 1981
  1. Jungle Boy
  2. Chihuahua
  3. Prince of Darkness (Sinner! Sinner! Sinner!) [Instrumental]
  4. Mickey Put It Down
  5. (I'm a) TV Savage
  6. Elimination Dancing
  7. Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!
  8. King Kong
  9. Go Wild in the Country
  10. I'm Not a Know It All
  11. Why Are Babies So Wise?
  12. Orang-Outang
  13. Hello, Hello Daddy (I'll Sacrifice You)
  1. I Want Candy
  2. Cowboy
  3. Louis Quatorze
  4. The Mile High Club
  5. W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don't) (extended version)
  6. Bow Wow Wow
  7. Fools Rush In
  8. I Want my Baby on Mars
  9. Gold He Said
  10. Sexy Eiffel Tower
  11. Radio G-String
  12. C-30, C-60, C-90 Go
  13. Sun, Sea and Piracy
  14. Uomo Sex Al Apache
  15. Giant Sized Baby Thing
  16. C-30, C-60, C-90 Anda!
  • I Want Candy (RCA AFL1-4375, 33rpm LP) 1982
  1. I Want Candy
  2. Baby, Oh No
  3. Louis Quartorze
  4. Cowboy
  5. The Mile High Club
  6. Go Wild in the Country
  7. Jungle Boy
  8. El Boss Dicho
  9. (I'm a) T.V. Savage
  10. King Kong
  1. Aphrodisiac
  2. Do You Wanna Hold Me?
  3. Roustabout
  4. Lonesome Tonight
  5. Love Me
  6. What's the Time? (Hey Buddy)
  7. Mario (Your own Way to Paradise)
  8. Quiver (Arrows in my)
  9. The Man Mountain
  10. Rikki Dee
  11. Tommy Tucker
  12. Love, Peace and Harmony
  • Wild in the U.S.A. (Cleopatra CLP 0424-2, CD) 1999

Remixed Tracks: 1 to 6; Live Tracks: 7 to 20.

  1. I Want Candy (Razed in Black Mix)
  2. W.O.R.K. (Atomic Dog Mix Remixed by Wayne Hussey of the Mission UK)
  3. C30 C60 C90 Go! (Remixed by Kevin Haskins of Love & Rockets Remix)
  4. Do You Wanna Hold Me (CKB Remix)
  5. W.O.R.K. (Spahn Ranch Mix)
  6. I Want Candy (Girl Eats Boy Remix)
  7. Giant Sized Baby Thing
  8. Louis Quatorze
  9. Baby, Oh No!
  10. Sexy Eiffel Tower
  11. See Jungle
  12. Mile High Club
  13. Uomo Sex Al Apache
  14. Prince of Darkness
  15. Go Wild in the Country
  16. Aphrodisiac
  17. I Want Candy
  18. C30 C60 C90 Go
  19. Do You Want to Hold Me
  20. What's the Time (Hey Buddy)

[edit] Singles

  • "C30, C60, C90, Go!" b/w "Sun, Sea and Piracy" (EMI 5088, 45rpm single) Jul 1980 #34 UK
  • "W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah, No No My Daddy Don't)" b/w "C30, C60, C90, Anda" (EMI 5153, 45rpm single) Mar 1981 #62 UK
  • "Prince of Darkness" b/w "Orang-outang" (RCA 100, 45rpm single) Jul 1981 #58 UK
  • "Chihuahua" b/w "Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!" (RCA 144, 45rpm single) Oct 1981 #51 UK
  • "Go Wild in the Country" b/w "El Bosso Dicho" (RCA 175, 45rpm single) Jan 1982 #7 UK
  • "See Jungle! (Jungle Boy)" / "(I'm a ) TV Savage" (RCA 220, 45rpm single, double A-side) Apr 1982 #45 UK
  • "I Want Candy" b/w "King Kong" (RCA 238, 45rpm single) May 1982; #39 AUS, #9 UK
  • "Louis Quatorze" b/w "Mile High Club" (RCA 263, 45rpm single) Jul 1982 #66 UK
  • "Fools Rush In" b/w "Sex (instrumental)" (EMI 5344, 45rpm single) Sep 1982
  • "Do You Wanna Hold Me?" b/w "What's the Time" (RCA 314, 45rpm single) Feb 1983 #47 UK

[edit] Compilations

AllMusicGuide's Stephen Thomas Erlewine recommends The Best of Bow Wow Wow (RCA Oct. 29, 1996) for its liner notes and highlights from their "inconsistent" albums and EPs. [3]

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ a b c *Ruhlmann, William. "Bow Wow Wow" All Music Guide.
  2. ^ a b c d e *Holly George-Warren, Patricia Romanowski, and Jon Pareles (2001). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century), p.107-108. ISBN 0-7432-0120-5.
  3. ^ a b Bogdanov, Vladimir et al, eds. (2001). All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music, p.49. ISBN 0-87930-627-0.

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