Bow Wow Wow

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Bow Wow Wow was a 1980s new wave band organized by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980 whose music is described as having an “African-derived drum sound”. McLaren persuaded guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman and percussionist Dave Barbarossa of the original lineup of Adam and the Ants to leave Adam Ant and form a new group, fronted by teen singer Annabella Lwin. McLaren was also going to use Boy George (later of Culture Club fame) as a second lead singer, but he was deemed to be “too wild” for the band.

McLaren discovered fourteen year old Lwin while she was working at a dry cleaners, 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 beats, though later moving towards heavy metal. The group released three full-length albums before Lwin quit to pursue a solo career, or was kicked out, in 1983.

Ashman went on to form Chiefs of Relief, and in 1995 died from diabetes complications. Lwin and Gorman reunited to release “Wild In The U.S.A.” in 1998, adding guitarist Dave Calhoun and drummer Eshan Khadaroo.

This is the laundrette Annabella Lwin worked in when she was discovered by a customer who was collecting his dry-cleaning.
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Top Tracks

1	I Want Candy full track	813
2	Aphrodisiac full track	575
3	I Want Candy (Kevin Shields Remix)	326
4	Fools Rush In (Kevin Shields Remix)	247
5	Go Wild in the Country full track	117
6	Fools Rush In	86
7	The Man Mountain	57
8	Louis Quatorze full track	48
9	Do You Wanna Hold Me?	41
10	Do You Wanna Hold Me	34
11	Baby, Oh No full track	32
11	Chihuahua full track	32
11	C30, C60, C90, Go!	32
14	I Want Candy [Kevin Shields remix]	31
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xnoelle25 wrote:
last month

It's all about C30, C60, C90, GO!!

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AlibiMCR wrote:
August 2008

Boy George fronted singing Aphrodisiac.

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Julietdesert wrote:
August 2008

I want caaaaaaaaaaandy <3

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dawnrenee wrote:
August 2008

o o O d d Damn i i I d d DO lOve ee eee thIs g g GroUp

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Baskinsun wrote:
July 2008

If you ever get your hands on Annabella's solo album . . . well, it's so cool! Especially when she covers Alice Cooper's "School's Out"

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RunswVampires wrote:
July 2008

This song is great for "Twilight" between Edward and Bella

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marionette_vie wrote:
July 2008

It's so funny when you think they're a new band, a current band. I've only heard of them from when I watched the Marie Antoinette film and I thought they were a recent band !

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ebbechi wrote:
June 2008

Annabella Lwin was discovered in this laundrette, it is still a laundrette today! http://www.musicpilgrimages.com/articl/2011.php

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vronsch wrote:
June 2008

<3 Aphrodisiac !!!!

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Nayo_ wrote:
May 2008

fools rush in where wise men never go, but wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

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another-girl wrote:
April 2008

! :)

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skinnydrifter wrote:
April 2008

Razed in Black mix!

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Artur_Alexander wrote:
March 2008

<3

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exitr wrote:
January 2008

God I love this band.

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szzamanek wrote:
November 2007

No.. Entrain's Mother Street sounds like I Want Candy..:P

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cwac wrote:
September 2007

I Want Candy sounds a little like Entrain's Mother Street with that Bo Diddley beat. Check it out at http://entrain.com/music.asp

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sadponygirl wrote:
September 2007

Yo

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satellite_heart wrote:
August 2007

3 words : I WANT CANDY : )

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mrmocha wrote:
August 2007

I just heard BWW's version of Mile High Club. I didnt really dig it. I guess I was expecting the same lyrics of the Adam Ant version since Adams old band that skated for BWW takes credit for the track on Prince Charming. Anyone like this version better?

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mikecakes2 wrote:
July 2007

just bought see jungle! on 2nd hand vinyl - kick-ass! - if you like bow wow wow check out ooioo - they're an off-shoot of the boredoms but i reckon they sound pretty similar to bow wow wow - in a good way though

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