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Music press favourites Glasvegas make proper old-fashioned emotional rock music that sounds a little like their Scottish forebears Jesus And Mary Chain but their debut album owes more to Phil Spector's Sixties girl groups such as Shangri-Las, with its tales of urban blight being given the full over-the-top melodramatic "My girl has left me/Gimme a pint of 90 Shilling/Now just leave me alone" treatment.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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A similar wail underscores the second album from Dum Dum Girls, a kind of latter-day Shangri-Las.
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King's magnificent voice; their indie record company gave us the Shangri-Las and the Dixie Cups.
Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011
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King's magnificent voice; their indie record company gave us the Shangri-Las and the Dixie Cups.
Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011
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King's magnificent voice; their indie record company gave us the Shangri-Las and the Dixie Cups.
Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011
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In the Shangri-Las' 1965 hit I Can Never Go Home Anymore, the song's fictional mother dies, and Mary Weiss unleashes a heart-piercing cry of "Mama!"
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Every girl likes a bad boy and the Shangri-Las knew how to capitalize off of this with their song, Leader of the Pack.
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Abducted is brilliant, harmonic west coast pop with a creepy shoegazey edge and a Shangri-Las beat.
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However, the producer denies that Joel ever played for the Shangri-Las.
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King's magnificent voice; their indie record company gave us the Shangri-Las and the Dixie Cups.
Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011
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