Bow Wow Wow (1980-83)

Posted about 5 years ago
I Want Candy..Bow Wow Wow was a 1980s New Wave band organized by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren whose music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound".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. 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.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Wow_Wow.C30, C60, C90 GO!..Filling in the gaps. No.75http://mog.com/Neill/blog_post/29537

Comments (3)

  1. Pop Savant says Bow WOW WOW is still great music 25 years later. I still listen to the greatest hits (as well as Adam and The Ants) at least once a month.
    Permalink posted 02/06/2007
  2. Lyla says they're all over the marie antoinette soundtrack, and during the movie i kept getting excited and turning the tv up so i could dance around the living room. yay.
    Permalink posted 02/06/2007
  3. darmuzz says I still have the See Jungle! album on vinyl. It has actually aged quite well.
    Permalink posted 02/06/2007

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