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Despite great essential acclaim because of the literate, passionate rock and roll, praise from some well-respected contemporaries, and a string of solid releases, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA band the decision by no means quite escaped cult position. The expected breakthrough to a wider target audience never materialized. Created in …

Famed as very much because of their video-ready space age group image for their music, the Los Angeles-based brand-new wave outfit Missing People shaped in 1980, a year following the marriage of singer Dale Bozzio and her husband, drummer Terry. A one-time person in Frank Zappa’s support music group, Terry …

Proclaiming themselves as “San Francisco’s first in support of rock and roll & roll strap,” Crime was a forerunner in America’s do-it-yourself punk background, liberating their first solo in late 1976. Though they under no circumstances described themselves as punk (a term they sensed was a mass media concoction), Crime …