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Hollywood Brats
The Hollywood Brats were a British glam rock and protopunk band in the early 1970s. They found little commercial success at the time, and split up in 1974, but are regarded as influential on the later punk rock scene.
==History==
The band was originally known as The Queen, and was formed in London in 1971 by singer Andrew Matheson (brought up in Gillingham, Kent), keyboard player Casino Steel (born Stein Groven, Trondheim, Norway, 22 February 1952), and drummer Lou Sparks. When another rock band, Queen, started to become popular, they were obliged to adopt a new name, Hollywood Brats.〔 In 1972, the group added guitarist Eunan Brady – recruited through an advertisement in ''Melody Maker'' for a guitarist "drunk on scotch and Keith Richards" – and bassist Wayne Manor. The band became noted in London for their flamboyant make-up and clothes, and aggressive musical approach, influenced by, and in many ways parallel to, the New York Dolls. Brady later commented that "The whole point of the Brats was to annoy and disturb!"〔(Sarah Tomlinson, "The Hollywood Brats", ''Allmusic.com'' ). Retrieved 26 June 2015〕 Matheson said: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.〔( Hollywood Brats, ''Punk77.co.uk'' ). Retrieved 26 June 2015〕
The group was championed by Keith Moon, who said they were the best band he had ever seen,〔(Nick Duerden, "Andrew Matheson interview: the Hollywood Brat who punched Freddie Mercury, stole from Cliff Richard and formed the UK's first punk band", ''The Independent'', 20 June 2015 ). Retrieved 26 June 2015〕 and in 1973 they recorded an LP for NEMS Records, described at Allmusic as "pure rock fun with fuzzy, garage-flavored guitar solos, cowbell accents, and snotty lyrics populated with gold diggers and tramps." All the songs were written by Matheson and Steel, apart from a cover of "Then He Kissed Me". However, the record company refused to release the album, and by the time it was eventually issued in Norway by Mercury Records, titled ''Grown Up Wrong'', in 1975, the band had split up.〔 "Then He Kissed Me" was belatedly released as a single by Cherry Red Records in 1979, and the album was reissued as ''Hollywood Brats'' the following year.〔( Colin Larkin, ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', reprinted at ''Oldies.com'' ). Retrieved 26 June 2015〕
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