THE HOLLYWOOD BRATS "THEN HE KISSED ME"+"SICK ON YOU" 1979 CHERRY RED EX/VG+ 7"

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ARTIST: HOLLYWOOD BRATS

TRACK LISTING: A. “THEN HE KISSED ME” b/w B. “SICK ON YOU”

RECORD LABEL: CHERRY RED RECORDS UK

CAT #: CHERRY 6

YEAR: 1979

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION, NO LINES, SCRATCHES, BLEMS, DINGS, FINGERPRINTS ON EITHER SIDE. VERY, VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, MAINLY SIDE "B" AS IT WAS THE ONE THAT WAS KINDA THE "HIT"

SLEEVE: IN VG/VG+ CONDITION, NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, RIPS, TEARS, MARKS. NO SEAM SPLITS. SPOT IN THE UPPER RIGHT FRONT CORNER WHERE A PRICE STICKER WAS LIFTED, TEXTURED PAPER. SOME VERY LIGHT CREASING, BUT ALL IN ALL SUPER CLEAN.

COMES IN PROTECTIVE PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE.

ARTIST INFO: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ANDREW MATHIASONS AUTOBIOGRAPHY A SUPER FUN READ AND HE TELLS THE ORIGINL STORY OF THE SONG “SICK ON YOU” (TRUST ME ON THIS ONE)

HOLLYWOOD BRATS BIO/INFO-

In England 1972 the Hollywood Brats were shopping at thrift stores for huge platform boots, feather boas, women’s blouses, applying tons of makeup and nail polish and banging out fast paced rockers. Meanwhile over the water The New York Dolls were doing the same. Of course the Dolls went down in history getting all the plaudits and a good record deal with Mercury before royally fucking up. The Brats however got nothing except a record deal with some Mafiosi care of Keith Moon who then refused to release their record. Unsurprisingly the Brats aren’t well known except to the punk cognoscenti.

Apart from singer Andrew Matheson (who came over from Canada in 1971 to form a band) there was ES Brady (Guitar) Wayne Manor (Bass) Casino Steel (Piano), Louis Sparks (drums). While the Dolls built a scene around the Mercer Arts Centre and Max's and were getting publicity The Brats had no chance building anything similar in the UK.

Andrew Matheson. The Brats were always being booed offstage – sometimes even beaten up by all these people who only ever wanted to hear Barry White or Billy Paul. They never wanted fast rock ‘n’ roll music…We went round every record company, even the small ones and all they kept saying was that rock ‘n’ roll music was dead and that that kind of raunchy music would never come back. Zigzag No.82, March/April ’78

Though aware of the Dolls, the Brats didn’t set out to copy them though bands had obvious similarities, visually and sonically. All the songs were written by Matheson and Steel, bar their cover of ‘Then He Kissed Me’. In those days a man singing lyrics like those were outrageous.

With no takers, The Brats signed the worst possible record deal and recorded an album in 1973. The LP was produced by Matheson and featured only one slow song, Drowning Sorrows. which is like the Stones doing Love In Vain. The rest of the album was fast rockers. Also on the album was the pre punk classic Sick On You.

With little media interest and their record company refusing to release anything the band split acrimoniously but not before Steel and Matheson stole the tapes which finally saw the light of day in Scandinavia in 1975.

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