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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 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 .
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 .
Gretchen Mol is opening up about her life after being the “It Girl” of the ‘90s. "There's always new fresh faces in Hollywood," Mol, 52, told People in an interview published on Saturday ...
"Nice Guy Eddie" is a song by English Britpop band Sleeper, written by the band's vocalist and guitarist Louise Wener. It was the third single to be released from their second album, The It Girl. It peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. [2]
"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. [1]
"Inbetweener" was released as a single in January 1995. [6] Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), wrote that it was the most anticipated album of the year that overcame the "hype, hope, and hubris which attended it", despite the tabloid press focusing its efforts "searching for details of Wener's mid-album split" from Stewart. [4] "
Abdullah "Bobby" Habib (played by Grant Heslov) was a member of the original Los Angeles sleeper cell and Gayle's next-door neighbor. He immigrated with his mother at Chicago, Illinois , at age fifteen, after his father, who was a colonel in the Egyptian Army was executed for participation in the murder of the president Anwar al-Sadat .