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Name: Lene Lovich  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 30th March 1949
   
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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CD reissue of Lene Lovich's first album, Stateless.

Lili-Marlene Premilovich, better known as Lene Lovich (March 30, 1949) is an American singer of Yugoslavian and British parentage.

Biography

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Lovich's mother fled to Hull, England with her four children due to her husband (Lene's father) becoming mentally unstable. As a teenager, Lene first met guitarist/songwriter Les Chappell, who would become her longtime collaborator. In the Autumn of 1968, Lene and Les went to London, England to attend art school. It was there that Lene first tied her hair into the plaits that later became her most famous visual trademark. She did it to keep her hair out of the clay when studying sculpture.

Over the following decade, Lovich amassed a wide range of experiences. She attended several art schools, busked around the London Underground and appeared in cabaret clubs as an Oriental dancer. She also travelled to Spain where she haunted Salvador Dalí's house until eventually she got to meet him. She played acoustic rock around London, sang in the mass choir of a show called Quintessence at the Royal Albert Hall, played a soldier in Arthur Brown's show, worked as a "go-go" dancer with the Radio One Roadshow, toured Italy with a West Indian soul band, played saxophone for Bob Flag's Balloon and Banana Band and for the all-girl cabaret trio The Sensations. She recorded screams for horror films, adapted lyrics for French disco star Cerrone and worked with various fringe theatre groups. She was also one of thousands of people in the audience at the 1972 Lancaster Arts Festival when Chuck Berry recorded the risqué "My Ding-a-Ling" for Chess Records. As the audience was encouraged to sing-a-long technically this could be described as her first appearance on record. The record was a No. 1 hit in the UK and the US.

In 1975, Lene joined The Diversions, a funk group that put out five singles and an album on Polydor Records without success. In 1978, disc jockey and author Charlie Gillett presented her to Stiff Records boss, Dave Robinson, who quickly signed her to a contract. Her first single for Stiff was "I Think We're Alone Now", a cover of a song originally performed by Tommy James & The Shondells.

After participating in the Be Stiff Route 78 Tour on 1978, Lovich recorded her first album for Stiff, Stateless which spawned the top 10 singles "Lucky Number" and "Say When". Lovich's musical style combined ethnic influences with then current punk rock and ska styles.

Lovich recorded a number of albums for Stiff over the next few years, often collaborating with Nina Hagen and Thomas Dolby. She also recorded vocals for several recordings by The Residents. By the mid-1980s, the novelty in her music had worn off and the hits stopped coming. In 1989, she recorded her most recently released album, March which was only moderately successful. Lovich continues to perform in much the same style she did back in the 1970s and 1980s, with Les Chappell still at her side. In 2005 she appeared on Hawkwind's Take me to your Leader CD as well as appearing occasionally on stage with them.

A new album on the Stereo Society label is scheduled to be released on September 13, 2005.

Discography

Album

  1. Stateless (1978)
  2. Flex (1979)
  3. No Man's Land (1982)
  4. March (1989)
  5. Shadows and Dust (2005)

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