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Not merely a vehicle for manager Malcolm McLaren's button-pushing antics, and responsible for considerably more than a hit cover, Bow Wow Wow remain synonymous with new wave. The band exemplified their era with visual and sonic cultural appropriations ranging from Mohawk hairstyling to Burundi-style drumming, lyrics that swung from suggestive to explicit, and a gleefully bestial spirit embodied by teenage singer Annabella Lwin. Formed in 1980, the band twice crashed the Top Ten in their native U.K. in 1982, with "Go Wild in the Country" and an update of the Strangeloves' "I Want Candy," the latter of which hit number 62 in the U.S. Bow Wow Wow broke up the following year and in their wake left only two proper albums (1981's See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! and 1983's When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going). Nonetheless, their place in pop history was secure long before Lwin and bassist Gorman reactivated the name for touring the following decade.
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