Bow Wow Wow : Louis Quatorze
In November of 1980 Bow Wow Wow released its EP Your Cassette Pet , an eight song 20 minute cassette only release packaged in a bright red flip-top cassette box and selling for only £1.99. Malcolm McLaren is hoping to both upend the music industry by using cassettes and to freak out the establishment by selling 15-year old singer Annabella Lwin as a sex symbol. He told the press the EP is "a celebration of under-age sex" and followed it up by trying to publish Chicken, a Playboy-style magazine featuring juveniles. "Sexy Eiffel Tower".
Days later Annabella Lwin would attend her first concert. It was Bow Wow Wow at the Starlight Roller Disco. The NME's Max Bell was there and though it was sparsely attended, Bell said they were very good and exciting, adding "If they were really smart they'd jettison McLaren now and rely on their own talent to get rid of the nagging feeling that this is only another stunt, a clever joke, a publicity scam for a manufactured group".
Their cover of "Fools Rush In" is sublime. Check out Leigh Gorman's basswork.
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