With our own queen of quirkiness 'Kimbra' starting to breakthrough internationally with her debut album Vows, it is a good time to celebrate another artist, from a generation or so earlier, who was less conventional but managed to find fame all the same. Lene Lovich had been in choirs, attended art school, been a cabaret and go-go dancer, was part of a West Indian soul band and even played saxophone for a couple of bands. So you could say that she put in the hard yards well before becoming a pop star. The first song she recorded was a cover of "I Think We're Alone Now", which Stiff Records wanted to release but they needed a B-side, which she and her writing partner Les Chappell had to come up with quickly. The so-called B-side was "Lucky Number" which ended up as an A-side... and the rest is history.
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