KLPI in Ruston, LA September 13, 1984 Louisiana Tech Radio, 89.1 FM // Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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EX-Yardbirds members: Chris Dreja - guitar // Paul Samwell-Smith - bass guitar, synthesizers // Jim McCarty - drums, keyboards ... ALL three: backing vocals, percussion / Released as a single in Englland, Australia, New Zealand
Single: Rock #2, UK #16, US Pop #7 / Springsteen wrote the song for Donna Summer. However, his manager (Jon Landau) decided the song had hit potential, and so he kept it for this album. / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single, with a color picture sleeve.
Single: UK Indie #4 / * - OR, is this a mini-album? - questions that never will (and probably shouldn't) be answered - LsA / Click on the Link above, left to view the original EP
Formed in Washington, DC / * - except for a track on a compilation / Click on the Link above, left to read an article written by their drummer Dan Joseph, on his experience in the group and the DC scene at the time.
"MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide" called the album 'a vitally important [document] of the rebirth of an entire genre of American music that, watered down and pasteurized, resurfaced later in everything from John Mellencamp's first post-Cougar releases to the entire current crop of alterna-twangers.'
Single: UK #28, Rock #78 (June 1984) // Bassist Fernando Saunders claimed years later, that Robert Quine (Guitarist - Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lester Bangs, Mathews Sweet, many others) had composed the guitar riff for this song, while they were rehearsing. Upon hearing Quine's riff, Reed had written the lyrics, but he gave Quine no co-writing credit, thus cutting Quine out of royalties which added further strain to their relationship. He did not play on this album.
LP charts: US #209, but .... US College #1!! / The album title is taken from a "Three Stooges" short film. // Click on the Link above, left to view the original Aussie single, with a color picture sleeve.
