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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 .
The It Girl, by Sleeper, 1996 "It Girl", a song by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from Thank God for Mental Illness, 1996 "It Girl", a song by Apink from Seven Springs of Apink, 2011
During this era, Bow was dubbed “The It Girl,” based on her performance in the 1927 movie It. (Bow plays shopgirl Betty Lou, who vies for the affections of her manager, Cyrus.
She starred in the first movie to win an Oscar for best picture. By 1930, she’d made in 45 movies in six years. By 1933, after struggles with men and mental illness, Clara Bow’s Hollywood ...
It turned Clara Bow from an up-and-coming movie actress into the biggest movie star of the 1920s who in the process became a film legend as a result of "It". The term "The It girl" has since entered the cultural lexicon. A scene from the film is included in the 1931 Paramount promotional compilation film The House That Shadows Built.
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.
"Sale of the Century" is a song by Britpop band Sleeper, written by the band's vocalist/guitarist Louise Wener and drummer Andy Maclure. In Europe, "Sale of the Century" was the second single to be released from their second album The It Girl in 1996 and became the group's first top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart.