ebm@ucbingres.ARPA (Grady Toss) (08/09/85)
In article <182@epicen.UUCP> jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes: > ... the Go-Go's were ... hardly the creation of the American music > industry. In fact, they had to go to England to record a single with > Stiff Records, a small punk/new wave label... After seeing how popular > that single was on the college radios and new wave clubs... an American > record company signed them. It is my understanding that the real reason they got signed was the rave reviews their managers were forging and sending back from England. I think that the Go-Go's are the perfect example of American record industry creation. They were originally rather punky (Jane Draino -> Jane Wiedlen), and were molded into some very sellable images created for them by The Industry. > My true favorite is Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders. But if video > had been big a couple of years earlier than it was, I don't know; > maybe the Pretenders would have had trouble getting a major record > contract. I don't think the Pretenders had the easiest time in the world getting a contract with one of the majors. Their first indie sinngle ``The Wait'' c/w ``Stop Your Sobbing'' was out for a long time (maybe a year) before their second single came out... it was some more time before the majors came sniffing around. > Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. ... gt