“C30 C60 C90 GO” by Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow announced themselves in 1980 with "C30 C60 C90 GO", a debut single that EMI issued on cassette and nothing else, making it the first cassette single ever. The song is a gleeful plug for home taping, the worst possible subject for a label fretting over piracy, and EMI refused to promote it.

The band was a Malcolm McLaren raid. Matthew Ashman, Leigh Gorman and Dave Barbarossa had just cut Dirk Wears White Sox in Adam and the Ants when the former Sex Pistols manager talked them into leaving Adam Ant behind, and the four of them wrote this together, with McLaren producing and Martin Levan assisting. The last piece turned up at a West Hampstead dry cleaner's, where Dave Fishel, a Liverpool session man and talent scout, caught Annabella Lwin singing along with the radio at work and got McLaren to audition her.

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