PLASTERED!

Annabella Lwin seen here in a fetching plaster performing at LA's Roxy in 1981. Lwin was first discovered in a London dry cleaners near West Hampstead tube singing to a Stevie Wonder record by a Malcolm McLaren associate David Fichel. She was a 14 year Burmese school-girl. Annabella had a fantastic voice and was soon inducted into McLaren's Adam less ANTS who he was then managing after Adam got the boot in early 1980. This new venture was called BOW WOW WOW who went on to score top 40 hits such as 'I Want Candy' and 'Go Wild In The Country'. BOW WOW WOW were influenced musically by Punk svengali and ex-Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren whose latest interests were pirate taping and Burundi beats. But even these became old hat and the band split up when McLaren lost interest in em around 1983.
The talented Annabella went solo with only her domineering moms backing in 1985 signing to RCA for a solo deal. But without Vivienne Westwoods clothes and McLarens letcherous scams and ideas success was as far away from her as when she got discovered in a drycleaners.
She has since reformed the band with new and old members and they gig sporadically mainly in the US.
Live Photo by Glen E. Friedman

Background image - Coinciding with Lwin's posing nude for a proposed
album cover, her mother alleged exploitation of a minor for immoral
purposes, and instigated a Scotland Yard investigation. As a result, the
band was only allowed to leave the UK after McLaren promised not to
promote Lwin as a "sex kitten". This included an agreement to not use
the nude photograph depicting Lwin as the woman in Manet's Le
Déjeuner sur l’herbe, though the picture was used as the cover of the
band's 1982 RCA EP 'The Last of the Mohicans', which became their
best-selling record in the US. (The photo was originally intended to be used for 1981's 'See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy' album, and the cover was used as planned in some European countries – such as the Netherlands – though not for the US versions of the album.) Lwin was almost made to quit the band by the controversy over the publication of the photo, particularly as she was only 15 when the photo was taken. Photographed by Andy Earl.