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Nikki & The Corvettes

Nikki & The Corvettes

Nikki & The Corvettes has been played on NTS in shows including Crossed Wires w/ Amanda Siegel, featured first on 1 March 2017. Songs played include Just What I Need, I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend and He's A Mover.

Nikki and the Corvettes, a Detroit punk-pop outfit led by the candy-voiced rocker Nikki Corvette, and Romantics guitarist Peter James, they kinda invented the whole girl sounding rock n roll thing. The group plied their brand of bubblegum punk from 1977 to 1981.

They had a sound somewhere between the Go-go's and the Ramones with bubblegum teenage libido maxed out with a dose of the Shangri Las. Led by a "new wave Betty Boop," to quote one review, this power group offered sounds and sex appeal. Combining those undeniable elements of energy and enthusiasm.

In the late '90s Nikki reemerged as an author with "Rock'n'Roll Heaven" (Boulevard/Berkeley) a book chronicling the stories of some of rock's greatest talents who met an early demise. And as an inspiration to such current girl rockers as The Donnas, who pay tribute to Ms. Corvette in their song "Gimmie My Radio!"

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Nikki & The Corvettes

Nikki & The Corvettes has been played on NTS in shows including Crossed Wires w/ Amanda Siegel, featured first on 1 March 2017. Songs played include Just What I Need, I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend and He's A Mover.

Nikki and the Corvettes, a Detroit punk-pop outfit led by the candy-voiced rocker Nikki Corvette, and Romantics guitarist Peter James, they kinda invented the whole girl sounding rock n roll thing. The group plied their brand of bubblegum punk from 1977 to 1981.

They had a sound somewhere between the Go-go's and the Ramones with bubblegum teenage libido maxed out with a dose of the Shangri Las. Led by a "new wave Betty Boop," to quote one review, this power group offered sounds and sex appeal. Combining those undeniable elements of energy and enthusiasm.

In the late '90s Nikki reemerged as an author with "Rock'n'Roll Heaven" (Boulevard/Berkeley) a book chronicling the stories of some of rock's greatest talents who met an early demise. And as an inspiration to such current girl rockers as The Donnas, who pay tribute to Ms. Corvette in their song "Gimmie My Radio!"

Original source: Last.fm

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Just What I Need
Nikki And The Corvettes
BOMP!1980
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Nikki And The Corvettes
BOMP!1980
He's A Mover
Nikki And The Corvettes
BOMP!1980