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Wendy And Lisa

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Wendy and Lisa (1987)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 16 July 1987

The Girl Bros. talk about their time as part of Prince's Revolution, and their then-new career as recording artists in their own right.

File format: mp3; file size: 28.6mb; Interview length: 31' 15"; sound quality: **

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Wendy & Lisa

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1987

WENDY Melvoin and Lisa Coleman go back a long way. Years before they were members of Prince's group, The Revolution, they were growing up as ...

Wendy & Lisa: Revolt Into Style

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 15 August 1987

WENDY & LISA USED TO BE PART OF PRINCE'S REVOLUTION. NOW THEY'RE STORMING THE BARRICADES WITH A SOLO CAREER. PURPLE RAIN OR JUST A DAMP ...

Alexander O'Neal: Hearsay (Tabu); Wendy and Lisa: Wendy And Lisa (Columbia)

Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, October 1987

TIME WAS when any R&B act of consequence bore the imprimatur of Prince or one of his aliases. These days, the big buzz is from ...

Wendy & Lisa: Sisters Of The Revolution

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 4 March 1989

PRINCE'S FORMER SIDEKICKS, WHOSE NEW SINGLE,'ARE YOU MY MAYBE' IS SELDOM OFF THE MAKER TURNTABLE, THIS WEEK RELEASE THEIR SECOND ALBUM, LAYERED AND IMPOSSIBLY RICH ...

Wendy & Lisa: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 29 April 1989

Ladies in waiting ...

Wendy And Lisa: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 6 May 1989

WOMEN IN unison. A glaring gaggle. A terrifying prospect. Wasn't it in fact Dorothy Parker, theoretically one of their own, who wrote, "I hate women. ...

Wendy and Lisa: Fruit at the Bottom (Columbia) ** 1/2

Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 15 June 1989

ON THEIR 1987 debut album, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman seemed to be bending over backward not to sound like Prince, whose band they had ...

Wendy & Lisa: Satisfy Yourself

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 5 August 1989

AFTER THEIR JUICY FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM LP GOT THE ECSTATIC REVIEWS IT SO RICHLY DESERVED, IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WENDY AND LISA ...

Prince: The Purple Gang

Retrospective and Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, February 1997

Outside the studio he was reticent. Inside he became the most ambitious, audacious auteur of the '80s. Marc Weingarten talks to his key collaborators to ...

Wendy & Lisa's impressive post-Prince parade

Comment by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, 8 January 2010

TWO US TELEVISION shows with little in common beyond the fact that they have made their mark on the viewing public and garnered critical warmth, ...

The Music of Prince: Carnegie Hall, New York

Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, March 2013

PRINCE HAS long been considered a gold standard as a singer, guitarist, stage performer, and producer. He's such a singular force, though, that he hasn't ...

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