Louis Quatorze was a bit near the knuckle to say the least lyrically, but is another masterful musical creation. Also, when Annabella had a decent song she could work wonders, as the excellent cover of Fools Rush In proved. Sound-wise they had found their own style, which mixed in some great guitar interjections that even looks back to the early Rock & Roll days of the Shadows allied to mighty drums and extremely fluid bass lines. This offering showed Bow Wow Wow in their early prime, with some fine music and singing outweighing the occasionally dodgy lyrics and concepts. The next move pushed the tape thing even more, with the mini-album/EP Your Cassette Pet (tracks 2 to 10 on disc 3 here), which was only released in that format.
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Just the same as with the Pistols, McLaren underestimated their musical ability and deemed it secondary to trying to use them to put across his ideas and create chaos.ĭespite mild disappointment with the chart placing, Bow Wow Wow had cracked the Top 40 and the future looked reasonably bright for them. This was at the detriment to the considerable abilities of Bow Wow Wow, because they were a group of excellent musicians (I saw Leigh Gorman play bass a few years back…well the boy could certainly play) and when Annabella wasn’t instructed to squeal she had a very appealing voice. It is difficult not to conclude that McLaren was repeating himself, not noticing that music had moved on since 1977, seeming to think that the only way a band could succeed was through notoriety. There were vague whispers from him of anti-hyping by EMI to keep the record out of the charts, yet another re-run of the Pistols, in this case the “God Save The Queen: was it number one in Jubilee week?” thing. It didn’t quite reach the heights expected though, which perhaps had more to do with the public growing tired with McLaren’s daredevil scamming than the record itself. Flipside Sun, Sea And Piracy was more of the same, presenting a quality 45. To be fair C30, C60, C90 Go was a pretty damn fine single, breathless yes but very exciting. He didn’t seem aware that this practice was not a new concept at all, loads of people had been taping the Top 40 off the radio for years. This time not Anarchy but home taping became the cause celebre, with the idea that this would lead to the downfall of the music industry. With the line up in place he did get them a deal with EMI and straight away set about stoking up controversy. A contact called Dave Fishel, who used the launderette she worked in, gave him a tip off about this talented kid, with Malcy tacking on his “A Star Is Born” story afterwards. For instance, much like how Bernie Rhodes discovered Johnny Rotten and Malc took the credit, a similar thing happened with Bow Wow Wow’s singer Annabella Lwin (real name Myant Myant Aye). It really started to feel like the Swindle Part 2. As the new band evolved, so many incidents concerning BWW seemed a direct repeat of the Sex Pistols controversy of three years before. He press-ganged the remaining Ants for his new project Bow Wow Wow, which would utilise the exotic sounds they had developed (as would Adam with his all-new Ants).
McLaren almost immediately torpedoed his reputation as a star spotter/Svengali by firing the man who would be the biggest Pop star in the country little over a year later. For a very short while, all seemed promising enough. A good move though was the introduction of a Burundi drum album – the musicians picked up on this and forged something exciting and new. The Dirk Wears White Sox LP had not been the commercial success Adam had hoped for, so he hired McLaren despite (or perhaps because of) his past record in turning band members against each other and general trouble making.
He then embroiled himself in the career of Adam And The Ants.
With the Pistols implosion just a distant memory and the court case that took the Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle away from his auspices concluded, Malcolm McLaren returned to the UK in late 1979 after a brief “exile” in Paris. and When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going, single tracks and the EP/mini-LP Your Cassette Pet from 1980….LTW’s Ian Canty dogs their footsteps
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Collection featuring all the recordings of Bow Wow Wow, with both full length albums See Jungle.
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