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Johnny Won't Get To Heaven / Naive
Catalogue Number - RAW 3
Label - Raw Records
Year Of Release - 1977
Rumoured that 13,000 copies were pressed and at least four different label designs exist.
Second Pressing
Same details as above
Third Pressing
Same details as above
Fourth Pressing
Same details as above
The Re-Issue
Johnny Won't Get To Heaven / Naive
Catalogue Number - damgood 165
Label - Damaged Good Records
Year Of Release - 2000?
(750 in a wraparound sleeve on Purple (Dark Pink) vinyl, then a further 750 in a made up proper glossy sleeve, of which 250 were on Black vinyl and 500 on White vinyl)
The Picture Disc
Johnny Won't Get To Heaven / Naive
Catalogue Number - DAMGOOD165P
Label - Damaged Good Records
Year Of Release - 2006
The Studio Demos 18/10/1977
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Give Me Recognition / Who's Back To Front / Sleep At Night / Naive
Catalogue Number - LAST 014
Label - Last Year's Youth Records
Year Of Release - 2004
The Album
Naive LP
Catalogue Number - FNARR10
Label - Damaged Good Records
Year Of Release - 1991
The A-Side tracks to the above album were recorded at the same time they recorded their debut release at the 'Spaceward Recording Studio'. The B-Side tracks were taken from the "Punk in London" film.
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| Kevin Rowland - Vocals | Heather Tonge - Vocals |
| Ghislaine Weston (aka Gem) - Bass | Mark Phillips - Guitar |
| Lee Burton (aka Joe 45) - Drums* | |
Hailing from Birmingham, the KILLJOYS, formed from the ashes of "Lucy and the Lovers", and hit the scene in March, 1977
VOCALS - KEVIN ROWLAND (EX-LUCY & THE LOVERS)
GUITAR - MARK PHILLIPS (EX-LUCY & THE LOVERS)
BASS - GHISLAINE WESTON (EX-LUCY & THE LOVERS)
DRUMS - LEE BURTON (aka JOE 45)
BACKING VOCALS - HEATHER TONGE
Taking punk to new extremes with their fast"n"furious, everything at ninety miles an hour attack, they made the Ramones look like the Osmonds...
They played the Roxy, Vortex, Music Machine, Barbarellas, and many other clubs the length and breadth of the UK throughout 1977 in order to promote their superb "Johnny Won't Get To Heaven" single on Raw records.
Later in the year they were captured on film at the Vortex and the Fulham Greyhound for the German documentary film "Punk In London", as well as recording their debut BBC Radio 1 session for John Peel.
After the scrapping of their second single ''Recognition' for the Raw label once again, the band went through a massive change in sound and image at the end of the year.
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| Kevin Rowland - Vocals | Mark Phillips - Guitar |
| Ghislaine Weston (aka Gem) - Bass | Keith Rimmel - Guitar |
| Bob Peach - Drummer | |
A new drummer, BOB PEACH (EX-SUPERNOVA) and a second guitarist, KEITH RIMMEL (EX-SUPERNOVA), joined in January, 1978 and Kevin started to write material that would prove to predate his Dexys vision utilising more soul than spit.
A second John Peel session, recorded in February, highlighted their new direction.
Sporadic gigs with Generation X and the Adverts followed, but Kevin was getting restless.
Bronze Records offered the band a deal after hearing tapes of their final recording session at Riverside Studios, Kevin wanted an album deal, but Bronze would only release a single, so Kevin turned them down.
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| Kevin Rowland - Vocals | Mark Phillips - Guitar |
| Ghislaine Weston (aka Gem) - Bass | Kevin (aka Al) Archer - Guitar |
| Bob Peach - Drummer | |
After a handful of dates across London in June 78,with new guitarist KEVIN "AL" ARCHER, replacing Rimmel, it was all over and the band split.
Two short lived bands, "Luxound Deluxe" and "Sister Sister" quickly rose from the ashes, before Kevin launched his new soul vision of "Dexys Midnight Runners".
The rest, as they say, is history.
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| Original Roxy Gig Advert from Fri 5th August 1977 |
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Thanks to 'Sandy Smith' for some of the above scans.
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