Holly and the Italians
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Wendy James...with her sexually-charged and rebellious image. The band was signed by MCA in December 1986 and released a cover version of the Holly and the Italians song "Tell That Girl To Shut Up" in late 1987. Months later the follow-up single "I... In this article: Wendy James, Transvision Vamp, Elvis Costello, Racine, I Want Your Love, Holly and the Italians, London, and Dave Parsons |
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Transvision Vamp
...notably The Moors Murderers and X-Ray Spex offshoot Agent Orange . The band were signed by MCA and released a cover single of the Holly and the Italians' song "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" in April 1988, but it only reached number 45 on...
In this article: Transvision Vamp, Wendy James, Dave Parsons, Racine, Anthony Doughty, MCA, Matthew Ashman, and X-Ray Spex
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Virgin Records
..., The Ruts, the Human League, Culture Club, Gillan, Simple Minds, and less successful bands like Shooting Star , the Motors, Boxer, Holly and the Italians and Fingerprintz. A short-lived subsidiary label, DinDisc, had Orchestral...
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Holly Beth Vincent
Holly Beth Vincent is an American singer,songwriter,producer,and multi-instrumental musician. Her band Holly and the Italians was one of the first punk bands led by a female and signed to a major label. She is best known for Holly and the...
In this article: Holly Beth Vincent, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet, Chris Wood, Keith Richards, Steve Winwood, Concrete Blonde, and Patty Donahue
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Reuters | October 16, 2009
Billboard CD reviews: Lyle Lovett, Brian McKnight
The girl-group sound has always been about just that -- the sound and its evolution, rather than a strictly distaff conceit (Blondie and Holly & the Italians in the '70s and '80s, Transvision Vamp and the Primitives in the '90s and Yeah Yeah...
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Heatwave (festival)
...a hoped-for 100,000) and the promoters lost a million dollars. Vladymir Rogov (opening artist) with his band ARKITEX (not on poster) Holly and the Italians (not on the poster) Rockpile featuring Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe The Rumour...
In this article: Teenage Head, Graham Parker, Rockpile, New Wave music, Wild One, The Rumour, Dave Edmunds, and Nick Lowe
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Holly and the Italians
...signed to disc jockey Charlie Gillett's record label, Oval. The 1980 release of the single "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" garnered the band a recording contract with Virgin Records. While the single wasn't a very big hit for Holly and the...
In this article: Holly Beth Vincent, Wounded Bird Records, Virgin Records, Tell That Girl to Shut Up, Patty Donahue, Transvision Vamp, I Got You Babe, MTV, and Charlie Gillett
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London (band)
...singer with the band Magic Bus . Steve Voice formed a new band 'The Original Vampires' and Dave Wight following stints in 'Metro' and Holly and the Italians reverted to his real name of Colin Wight and became an academic; recently...
In this article: London, Riff Regan, London, Jon Moss, MCA Records, The Damned, Simon Napier-Bell, and Sex Pistols
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Holly and the Italians were a short-lived American pop-punk band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1978 by Chicago born singer and guitarist Holly Beth Vincent, bassist Mark Sidgwick, and drummer Steve Young.
They relocated to London, England and after playing on the pub circuit extensively, they quickly came to prominence as the opening act for fellow Americans Blondie, and were signed to disc jockey Charlie Gillett's record label, Oval.
The 1980 release of the single "Tell That Girl To Shut Up" garnered the band a recording contract with Virgin Records. While the single wasn't a very big hit for Holly and the Italians, it would be in 1988 when covered by Transvision Vamp. The band recorded their only album, The Right To Be Italian, produced by Richard Gottehrer. In August 1980, they played the major Heatwave festival near Toronto.
In 1982, Holly Beth Vincent released a solo album entitled Holly and the Italians. The album was/is critically acclaimed, and the subsequent video gained some airtime on MTV. Later that year Vincent recorded a duet of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" with Ramones frontman Joey Ramone.
After a brief period replacing Patty Donahue in The Waitresses, she sang in a combo called the Wild Things with Anthony Thistlethwaite (The Waterboys) and Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) and recorded an album, "America", under the name the Oblivious for Amy Ray's label Daemon Records. In 1995, Holly toured and teamed up with Concrete Blonde singer Johnette Napolitano for a musical side project entitled Vowel Movement.
In 2007, Holly completed a new record,"Super Rocket Star" which is available on CD Baby.
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