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Bow Wow Wow: Sun, Sea & Piracy

Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, October 1980

POP, THAT disposable distraction, is mostly about transience: it’s the order of the perpetual child, the moment! Not that those last long these days. Most ...

Bow Wow Wow: Funky Chicken

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 November 1980

A meal on wheels... and it's finger-lickin' good, sez PHIL SUTCLIFFE ...

Bow Wow Wow: > C•30 > C•60 > C•Shanty Go!

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 6 December 1980

Max Bell charts an old sea dog's a blinga a blanga a bippity bop ...

Malcolm McLaren... the True Poison!

Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, May 1981

You're dealing with a very low level of creativity in the music business. The man who sits in his office marketing records is not a ...

Bow Wow Wow

Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, January 1982

WITH A LITTLE embroidery Annabella Lwin's story could be a classic show business myth: Discovered working at a dry cleaners, an ordinary 14-year-old girl becomes ...

Malcolm McLaren

Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, February 1982

This is the full transcript of the interview, a small (1500-word) version of which appeared in Over 21 magazine in May 1982. ...

Malcolm McLaren: Innovation Or Exploitation?

Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1982

Malcolm McLaren, the shaker and baker of British punk, turned the Sex Pistols into an epochal event, turned Adam Ant around and now plays Svengali ...

Bow Wow Wow Take Trip, Yeah!

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, March 1982

NEW YORK — The first time Bow Wow Wow were ready to tour America their 15-year-old singer Annabella Lu Win had either a) stage fright, ...

Bow Wow Wow: Empire Ballroom, London

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 March 1982

DANCING BLOW, 1-30! ...

Bow Wow Wow: Candyed Camera

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 7 August 1982

MARK COOPER puts a fatherly arm round ANNABELLA'S shoulders ...

Here & Now It's Bow Wow Wow!

Interview by Richard Grabel, Creem, June 1983

THE STORY has to begin with Malcolm McLaren, the ex-Kings Road clothier who brought the Sex Pistols to the world. Having seen his punk rock ...

Bow Wow Wow: When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going (RCA)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1983

PERSONALLY, I never lost a minute's sleep over 15 1/2-years-old-and-semi-nude Annabella's supposed exploitation at the hot little hands of Malcolm McLaren when he was pushing ...

Child Stars: We Blame The Parents!

Report by Martin Aston, Q, August 1994

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington. Better still, burn that Opportunity Knocks application form. Today's child stars are tomorrow's drug addicts, depressives, ...

Kenny Laguna: Laguna Tunes

Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 29 April 2000

IT'S TEMPTING TO imagine that Kenny Laguna invented the lifework he chronicles in the songs and liner notes of Laguna Tunes, that this parade of ...

Malcolm McLaren 1946-2010

Obituary by Alex Ogg, Rock's Backpages, 12 April 2010

MALCOLM MCLAREN, who died on April 8 aged 64 after a protracted battle with cancer, was punk's self-mythologised circus barker. His custodianship of the musical ...

Annabella Lwin: What She Likes

Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, April 2012

McLaren protégée, voice of Bow Wow Wow, Pitbull fan and romcom freak. Identifies with Marie Antoinette. ...

Bow Wow Wow: Islington Academy, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 1 May 2012

THE SEX PISTOLS were not Malcolm McLaren's only situationist prank. After the demise of the Pistols, McLaren managed an early incarnation of Adam & the Ants; he then ...

see also Malcolm McLaren

see also Annabella Lwin

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