Monday, February 25, 2008

Who Knew?

In the coolest piece of musical trivia I have heard in years, I now know where Lieutenant Lush ended up.

For some context, Malcolm McLaren, the mind behind the Sex Pistols, Adam Ant, (Vicious),and a host of punk and post punk music efforts, 'discovered' a 14 year old singer at a dry cleaners in London.

Convinced youth and energy were at the heart of rock n' roll, McLaren launched the band, called Bow Wow Wow. The album and tour had a pretty fluid song list, yet backed into the Top 50 on US charts with "I Want Candy", a cover song.

The original lineup of Bow Wow Wow had another singer: Lieutenant Lush, whose presence was seen as too distracting from the 14 year old phenom Annabella Lwin.

Hustled out of the band as they broke out, Lt. Lush went on to form a band who went on to sell far more records than Bow ever hoped to.

That Lieutenant became Boy George, of Culture Club.

2 comments:

Franks said...

The royaltie$ that musicians receive for airplay of their creations are phenomenal.

This started decades ago, but it is similar in concept to the monthly service fees that software companies are charging for users to "play" with their creations, eh?

Franks

Franks said...

The royaltie$ that musicians receive for airplay of their creations are phenomenal.

This started decades ago, but it is similar in concept to the monthly service fees that software companies are charging for users to "play" with their creations, eh?

Franks