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Bow Wow Wow

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Bow Wow Wow were an English 1980s New Wave band created by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and business partner Vivienne Westwood's New Romantic fashion lines. The group's music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound". History McLaren persuaded guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman and drummer David Barbarossa (also known as Dave Barbe), of the then line-up of Adam and the Ants to leave founder of the band Adam Ant and form a new group. After a six-month long audition process for a lead singer, the band hired Annabella Lwin. Musician David Fishel, originally from Liverpool, an acquaintance of McLaren's, discovered 14-year-old Lwin while she was working a Saturday job at her local dry cleaning shop. She was singing along to a Stevie Wonder song on the radio. The group's sound was a mix of her "girlish squeal," Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, pop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music influenced tom-tom drum beats. Among the regular faces at the...

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Discography

  • When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going
  • Girl Bites Dog: Your Compact Disc Pet, 1993
  • See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy, 1981
  • See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!

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SongI Want Candy
ArtistBow Wow Wow
AlbumI Want Candy
LabelRCA
Year1982
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On Jan 26, 2011. 10:51am
kasdave said

What is this song doing on Dig...?
Thought I had somehow logged onto FoxFM...!!!!!

On Jul 8, 2009. 12:52pm
Allyson said

This is fantastic - haven't heard this song for ages. And you can go to their feature page on the site and immediately see the video. I remember those heady days when I thought the lead singer was so radical! .

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