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Bow Wow Wowwas a 1980s new waveband organized by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLarenin 1980 whose music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound". McLaren persuaded guitarist , bassist and percussionist of the original lineup of Adam and the Antsto leave Adam Antand form a new group, fronted by teen singer Annabella Lwin. McLaren was also going to use Boy George(later of Culture Clubfame) as a second lead singer, but he was deemed to be "too wild" for the band. McLaren discovered fourteen year old Lwin while she was working at a dry cleaners, and the group's sound was a mix of her "girlish squeal", Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, new romanticpop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music-influenced tom tom beats, though later moving towards heavy metal. The group released three full-length albums before Lwin quit to pursue a solo career, or was kicked out, in 1983.

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