After a period of several months that entailed auditions for over 200 singers, Annabella Lwin was added to the lineup. McLaren instead met with the London-based Ants - guitarist Matthew Ashman, drummer David Barbarossa, and bassist Leigh Gorman - and talked the musicians into abandoning their frontman. The former Sex Pistols manager had been sought out by Adam Ant to guide Adam and the Ants following disappointing sales of that band's Dirk Wears White Sox. Nonetheless, their place in pop history was secure long before Lwin and bassist Gorman reactivated the name for touring the following decade.īow Wow Wow were instigated in January 1980 by Malcolm McLaren. Bow Wow Wow broke up the following year and in their wake left only two proper albums (1981's See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! and 1983's When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going). in 1982, with "Go Wild in the Country" and an update of the Strangeloves' "I Want Candy," the latter of which hit number 62 in the U.S.
Formed in 1980, the band twice crashed the Top Ten in their native U.K. The band exemplified their era with visual and sonic cultural appropriations ranging from Mohawk hairstyling to Burundi-style drumming, lyrics that swung from suggestive to explicit, and a gleefully bestial spirit embodied by teenage singer Annabella Lwin.
Not merely a vehicle for manager Malcolm McLaren's button-pushing antics, and responsible for considerably more than a hit cover, Bow Wow Wow remain synonymous with new wave.
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