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The It Girl is the second studio album by English Britpop band Sleeper, [1] released in May 1996 (see 1996 in music). It was their most successful album, selling over 300,000 copies in the UK alone. [2] The album was released internationally, with the US version having a different track listing and alternative photos in the liner booklet.
Sleeper recorded three full-length albums prior to splitting: Smart, The It Girl and Pleased to Meet You. After the band split up in 1998, Wener began a writing career, [ 5 ] and has written four novels: Goodnight Steve McQueen , The Big Blind (also known as The Perfect Play ), The Half Life of Stars , and Worldwide Adventures In Love .
Sleeper are an English rock band formed in London in 1992. The group had eight UK top 40 hit singles and three UK top 10 albums during the 1990s. [1] Their music was also featured in the soundtrack of the pop cultural hit movie Trainspotting. The band split up in 1998, but reunited in 2017.
Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif , [ 1 ] at his New York dancing studio.
It popularized the concept of the "it girl", with the term "it" defined in the opening as the "quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force." The film had its world premiere in Los Angeles on January 14, 1927, followed by a New York showing on February 5, 1927. It was released to the general public on February 19, 1927.
The Sleeper is a single British television crime drama film, written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by Stuart Orme, that first broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December 2000. [1] The film was initially broadcast in two parts, [ 2 ] and is based on the novel by Gillian White .
"Statuesque" is a song by Britpop band Sleeper, written by the band's vocalist and guitarist Louise Wener. "Statuesque" was the fourth and final single to be released from Sleeper's second album The It Girl and became the group's last top twenty hit on the UK Singles Chart.
While the tracks from The It Girl were being demoed, several tracks had working titles based on characters from Reservoir Dogs; Nice Guy Eddie is the only one that kept that name. [3] A segment of the song was used by BBC Wales for the intro and outro music for their coverage of the FAW Invitational Cup in the late 1990s and early 2000s.