![]() ![]() Initially released only on cassette, it was the world's first-ever cassette single (a 7" vinyl version was released several months later). EMI Records īow Wow Wow signed with EMI Records in July 1980 and released their first single, " C♳0 C♶0 C♹0 Go!", shortly thereafter. O'Dowd soon formed a new band called Culture Club and went on to superstardom under the name " Boy George". Shortly after Lwin joined the group, McLaren added a second lead singer, George Alan O'Dowd, dubbed "Lieutenant Lush" (in an early version of "Mile High Club", Annabella refers to herself as "Captain Lush"). Talent scout Dave Fishel heard 13-year-old Lwin singing along to the radio at a West Hampstead dry cleaners where she worked, and Fishel persuaded McLaren to audition her. The band embarked on a six-month audition process for a lead singer. In 1980, former Sex Pistols manager McLaren persuaded David Barbarossa (also known as Dave Barbe), guitarist Matthew Ashman and bassist Leigh Gorman to leave Adam Ant and form a new group under McLaren's management. The band's music was characterized by a danceable new wave sound that drew on a Burundi beat provided by Dave Barbarossa on drums, as well as the subversive, suggestive, and sometimes exuberant lyrics sung and chanted by their teenage lead vocalist. ![]() They released their debut EP Your Cassette Pet in 1980, and had their first UK top 10 hit with " Go Wild in the Country" in 1982. McLaren recruited members of Adam and the Ants to form the band with then 13-year-old Annabella Lwin on lead vocals. Bow Wow Wow are an English new wave band, created by manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980. ![]()
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