St. Valentine's Day Massacre (EP)

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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
EP from Motörhead , Girlschool

Publication
(s)

1st February 1981

admission

1980

Label (s) Bronze Records

Format (s)

EP

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

3

running time

9:33

occupation

production

Vic Maile

St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a joint EP by the bands Motörhead and Girlschool , which was released on February 1, 1981 under the joint band name Headgirl. The EP consists of three tracks recorded in December 1980 at Jacksons Studios in Rickmansworth , London , England. The EP with the main track Please Don't Touch , a cover version of the song of the same name by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates from 1959, entered the UK singles charts and reached number 5 there in early 1981.

background

The collaboration between the two British bands Motörhead and Girlschool began in March 1979 when Motörhead began their first major tour with the album Overkill and Girlschool went on tour as a support act. Lemmy had heard the single Take It All Away and found it and the idea of ​​a girl to be very good. In his opinion, Kelly Johnson was as good as any other guitarist he had seen in his life. End of December 1980 Motörhead's drummer injured Phil Taylor at the cervical spine and could not continue playing in the ongoing performances and recordings of the band, which is why Motörhead producer Vic Maile suggested a single with Girlschool, with whom he also worked to include. The result was the EP St. Valentine's Day Massacre , on which the bands duet a cover version of the song Please Don't Touch by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates . In addition, the bands covered each other, so Girlschool recorded the song Bomber by Motörhead and Motörhead "Emergency" by Girlschool. With Phil Taylor unavailable, girl school drummer Denise Dufort was the only one to play on all three songs.

publication

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  UK 5 02/21/1981 (8 weeks)

The EP was released in 1981 in 7 "and 10" vinyl formats, both with the same cover art and track list. It reached number 5 on the UK singles chart in February. There is a bootleg St. Valentine's Day Massacre in the form of a double 12 "vinyl album with white labels, which also contains recordings of the sets by Motorhead and Girlschool from a Rockstage TV special from 1981 at the Theater Royal in Nottingham In February 1981 the two bands played under the name Headgirl Please Don't Touch on BBC TV's Top of the Pops to support the release of the EP, and they also played the song on episode 62 of the German TV show Musikladen , which ran on April 4th Aired in 1981.

The songs Please Do not Touch and Emergency were both on the compilation album No Remorse of 1984 and later on the new edition of Ace of Spades by Castle Records to hear from the 1996th

Track list

The title list of the original 1981 publication included:

  1. Please Don't Touch ( Johnny Kidd , Guy Robinson ) - 2:48
  2. Bomber (Lemmy Kilmister, Eddie Clarke, Phil Taylor) - 3:30
  3. Emergency (Denise Dufort, Kelly Johnson, Kim McAuliffe, Enid Williams) - 3:03

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Motorhead. officialcharts.com, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Motörhead - No Remorse at Discogs (English); accessed on May 4, 2020.
  3. ^ Motörhead - Ave of Spades (1996) at Discogs (English); accessed on May 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ Motörhead / Girlschool - St Valentines Day Massacre at Discogs (English); accessed on May 4, 2020.

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