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When the band found success with their subsequent album Different Light, "Going Down to Liverpool" was re-released as a single in the UK and Ireland in 1986 after the release of "If She Knew What She Wants", with new cover artwork and featuring the Different Light album track "Let It Go". This time the single fared better but still only became ...
The Bangles' full-length debut album on Columbia Records, All Over the Place (1984), captured their power pop roots, featuring the singles "Hero Takes a Fall" and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque "Going Down to Liverpool" (originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves).
The video for "Going Down to Liverpool" features Leonard Nimoy, who plays the part of the band's chauffeur. The album was reissued in 2008 on the Wounded Bird Records label (WOU 9220) adding a bonus track: "Hero Takes a Fall" (Single Remix).
"Going Down to Liverpool" Tamar Hoffs: 1986 "Manic Monday" Leslie Libman "If She Knew What She Wants" Dan Perri "Walk Like an Egyptian" Gary Weis: 1987 "Walking Down Your Street" "A Hazy Shade of Winter" Jim Shea 1988 "In Your Room" Tamra Davis "Eternal Flame" Tim Pope: 1989 "Be with You" Marty Callner: 1990 "Everything I Wanted" 2003
The group survived a slow career climb by tours of RAF bases and Canadian club gigs, then teamed up with the producers Pat Collier and Scott Litt to record Rew's compositions "Going Down to Liverpool", covered by The Bangles, and, in 1985, "Walking on Sunshine", which became the group's first and biggest hit. [6]
She sang lead vocals on two of the band's released singles, "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984) and "Be with You" (1989). She is the younger sister of fellow Bangles member Vicki Peterson. Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson, Susanna Hoffs and Michael Steele (1984)
And when the Bangles covered "Going Down to Liverpool", a song from Katrina and the Waves' first album, major record labels started to take an interest. [8] This eventually led to signing a deal with Capitol Records in Los Angeles. It was decided to re-record, overdub or remix ten tracks from the two Canadian albums for their Capitol debut. [9]
"Right from the get go The Bangles were a retro '60s kind of band. They loved '60s music, obscure groups like The Merry Go Round," Steinberg told Songfacts. "The Bangles liked everything from Petula Clark to The Beatles... So when we got together to write with Susanna it was right up our alley because of course Tom and I grew up in the '60s and ...