Bow Wow Wow C/D

I thing Chicken was supposed to be a magazine. Not clear on whether it had anything to do with the musical project. The idea of the musical, iirc, was that a bunch of kids hijack a plane and then all have sex with each other on it (origin of "Mile High Club"). The name "Lieutenant Lush" that Boy George later assumed was a character from the musical.

And I think there are kid gangs in it, like the Homosexual Apaches (hence "Uomo Sex Al Apache")

here's the stuff about McLaren & Chicken, it's pretty fucking unpleasant stuff tbh

http://thestreetlampdoesntcast.blogspot.com/2011/07/sexploitation-music-part-2.html

Yeah, it was about how children could be the true revolutionaries if they use their sexuality. And on from there..

Not sure I need more than the comp I've already got but Cherry Red is putting out the complete works:

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/bow-wow-wow-your-box-set-pet-the-complete-recordings-1980-84-3cd-clamshell-boxset/

Ah, I messed up the link for my comp, it's this one: http://www.discogs.com/Bow-Wow-Wow-Annabella-The-Best-Of-Bow-Wow-Wow/master/300892

That's awesome. It's great to have all those 12" remixes in one place; I think some have not been on CD before. The 12" for "Love, Peace, and Harmony" sounds great and is notably different from the album version. This box also includes "Teenage Queen," which is "Baby, Oh No" with different lyrics and only came out in Japan. It also looks like it has the new versions of "Elimination Dancing" and "King Kong" that came out only on a Flexipop single.

The only thing it looks like it doesn't have is the re-recorded versions of "Mile High Club" & "C30 C60 C90 Go!" that appeared on a limited edition promo single when they played at the new Studio 54 in 1981 (unless the last track of Disc 4 is the former... not sure)

There’s a Bow Wow Wow appearance on “American Bandstand” from May 1983 up on YouTube. They do “Do You Wanna Hold Me” and “Aphrodisiac.” The group seem in such good spirits it’s hard to believe they would play the final show of their classic run the very next month.

Dick Clark asks them about the time they’re spending touring the US, which got me curious, so I looked it up and it’s kind of amazing how much they worked in the US. They were gigging in America for practically the entire first six months of 1983, this on top of extensive US tours in ‘81 and ‘82.

I just have to add, I have never understood the break-up of Bow Wow Wow. It seems like a major case of self-sabotage. They were all still so young, but only Leroy Gorman, the most talented one, accomplished much post-BWW. No one really remembers The Chiefs of Relief, I assume.

the bass sound on this live version of I Want Candy is immense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtvrYZyBEA

I dunno why people bag on this song so much. it's fucking great. the purity of it... all the elements just fused into this unstoppable beat. it honestly almost brings me to tears