B-Movie: A Letter From Afar
Best known for their single "Nowhere Girl", B-Movie was an '80s new romantic could-have-been, never quite reaching mainstream success. Formed in 1978 in Mansfield, they named themselves after an Andy Warhol painting and trudged their way through the music industry in vain until 1985. The unbelievably detailed and exclamation point-filled biography on their website blames their record labels, management,, former band members, and anyone else they associated with for their failures (and frankly makes the band sound like egotistical jerks).
Too bad anyway, since they wrote some great pop songs that hardly anyone remembers now. "A Letter From Afar" was meant to be their comeback single, produced by pop hitmaker , but it never made a blip on the charts. I'm sure it was all Marc Almond's fault...
Posted: August 9th, 2010
at 5:11pm by qbot
Tagged with 1984, andy warhol, british, graham boffey, jellybean benitez, letter from afar, marc almond, new romantic, nowhere girl, paul statham, rick holliday, soft cell, steve hovington
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