Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild in the Country

[@traceydaizy]

I'm so glad I was here when this kind of music was happening

[@bongodave13]

This band was so unique. So good.

[@whatthefl0ck]

I got a Walkman recently and my dad gave me one of his old cassette tapes, this was the first song on it and I'm in love

[@hjillumi880]

oh gawd

[@discosecret6363]

That’s amazing. Your dad is f’ing cool, let him know.

[@whatthefl0ck]

@@discosecret6363 I'll let my dad know though I'm sure he already knows he's f'ing cool

[@maureenstott5530]

This actually made me smile so much ! Your dad has good music taste

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Good band for a Walkman seeing as C30 C60 C90 Go is about home taping

[@JohnSmith-wo7ns]

She was beautiful, probably still is and a brilliant singer!

[@horrortackleharry]

Well she was 15 here, so she was a pretty girl rather than a beautiful woman.

[@JohnSmith-wo7ns]

@@horrortackleharry really? Your right, pretty is more suitable. I stand corrected. Thank you.

[@michaelmarshall9132]

​@@JohnSmith-wo7nsyou was right though she still is .

[@Iwilldestroyyoo]

Ew, she’s abhorrently hideous, even more so today. Looks like a freak.

[@donniet685]

@@horrortackleharry I wondered why she looked so vibrant, haha. She was an 'older woman' back then (and still is). -x-

[@amauryegazarain3890]

I saw them the first time in 1982 at the Mud Club. OMG! A mad house! Sold out and over pack. I saw them a number of times after a lot of fun.

[@sugarjoe50]

I saw them at the Ritz in NYC, great show. Phil Lynott was among the crowd, not long before his passing.

[@lemsip207]

I wish I had gone to see them now but was living in a county town not a city when they were in the charts with this and I don't own a car.

[@joejones9520]

amazing!

[@glampervert]

What year was that?

[@greatpix]

About 20 years ago I was fortunate to see Bow Wow Wow perform and even better got to go backstage and meet Annabel before the show and after what turned out to be one of the best concerts I've seen my entire life got to go backstage again and hang out with the band for 15 minutes more. Great people, can't say enough good things about them.

[@lemsip207]

Did you meet the rest of the band as well? Their drummer was with Adam and the Ants before Bow Wow Wow was formed and later joined Republica in the mid 90's. He looked very different in Republica as he had bleached his hair.

[@lemsip207]

I quite fancy the drummer now (later was the drummer for Republica) and even though I was aware of Bow Wow Wow and Annabel in particular at the time I didn't look at the rest of the band. Probably because I didn't have a TV set of my own then and there was no living room where I lived. I didn't read teen magazines and music magazines then. Now I wish I had gone to see them and met them.

[@Polo-xm9xk]

I was waiting for you to say you got in on with Anabel lol

[@lemsip207]

@@Polo-xm9xk I wouldn't mind getting on with the drummer if I could go back in time and looked like I did then and he did as well. But then I was a different person then with different value and didn't know of his future. It was difficult to notice him in photos of the band when he's behind the others.

[@reggieongoogle3583]

She was so punk! And her performance was perfect for this song.

[@misti7766]

God bless the eighties!!

[@jutwilton7363]

Purrrŕrrrrr Annabella Lwin...you never forget your schoolboy crushes 😊

[@Nooziterp1]

The only thing I didn't like ab out her was the mohican.

[@robskibulletmovement8998]

I was 10 when this was song was released.. I was in love with her 👍🏿

[@traceydaizy]

Brilliant 😁 I didn't realise how brilliant when I was 14 but I do now 😊

[@craigsimons817]

I love the way Annabel sings the line “I don’t want a picnic cos I get sick” Just like any stroppy teenager! Absolutely brilliant stuff.

[@argonaut6386]

Well that's because she was a stroppy teenager at only 15yrs old 😉

[@lemsip207]

At that age, you would normally be a hungry teenager with hollow legs unless you had a sluggish metabolism for your age, were overweight, or had an eating disorder.

[@ScratchyBaws]

Love it, the singing started and she still had the microphone down by her knee🤣😂😂😂

[@dougsteel7414]

Christ I fancied this woman when I was a kid

[@rayva1]

I would’ve never believed she was still in her teens at the time, she has such excellent control over her vocals.

[@sophiew1967]

Me too..lol.

[@didsthecat1503]

I still do fancy her

[@dougsteel7414]

@@didsthecat1503 Yeah...same!

[@clarissablue9026]

Let's be real she was a kid, too. Only freaking 16 here.........

[@ullibaumgarten6212]

Unbelievable. Sie waren richtig gut - eine der besten New Wave-Bands.

[@jonathanokeefe9783]

One of THE iconic TOTP performances!

[@lemsip207]

Unfortunately I didn't own a TV at the time and there was no living room with a shared TV set in it where I was living then so I didn't see this on TV only heard it on the radio. I remember singing this and doing a little jig in the warehouse at work and one manager came up to me and jokily saying "No dancing in the warehouse." So I started to imagine the bosses at work dancing to this at a workplace party in the canteen while the warehouse workers and office staff sat around watching while clapping and cheering.

[@Mickball123]

I bought this single, she was beautiful, great song 👏🏼

[@ShikiraPressley]

Annabel so cool - kind of get my childhood kicks from this!

[@Sally-lg1vn]

Remember this song! Love seeing Matthews guitar, if you look closely he's wrote a love note to his then girlfriend gabriella palmano, loving matthew, God bless, he would have been 60 this November

[@TheKatyc]

Sal G that’s brillliant

[@amandawilson7412]

Thank you for sharing this

[@justinkavanagh4678]

Love this comment xx

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

A great song, and a great time to be young as well (bearing in mind that she was only 15 when this came out). On the other hand, I still can’t hear this and not think of Cavegirl!

[@hopsail]

Annabella wasn't 15 here. She was 19.

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

Kathy Richards Hi. I must be getting confused! As I understand it, Annabella was born on 31 October 1966. If the date of this performance is March 1982, then surely she would have turned 15 the previous year. Just saying.

[@gabemcknight8933]

@@hopsail she was 15 at this time

[@safeashouses211]

@@hopsail This was the 11th March 1982 and she was born on the 31st October 1966. That's why there was so much controversy about the photo used for the album and single cover which was taken when she was 14.

[@johnmccormick1602]

Who cares how old . She rocked

[@flashtheoriginal]

Had the privilege of seeing Bow Wow Wow at West Runton Pavillion circa 1981. Superb live and no... they didnt use tapes. Anyone still own "Your Cassette Pet"? Yep me too, I am 58 and still listening, thanks so much for posting

[@MontagZoso]

You are very lucky! I am 50 plus but never got to see them live. Love those early 80s days! The best music! 😎

[@135Ops]

Yep got the NME Cassette Pet im 57

[@chrisbarnes5845]

Me too.

[@sophiew1967]

Me too when they played in Larks In The Park music festival in the beautiful Sefton Park Liverpool & Echo & the Bunnymen were on the same bill..the smell of weed permeating from the audience was intoxicating ..but Liverpool was weed central in those days .lol

[@sophiew1967]

If you're interested here is the performance in Liverpool I went to in my local.park m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4SphHicodlqorc

[@davidmartin9346]

Loved this, King Trigger, Pigbag and Hayzee Fantazee- John Wayne is Big Leggy. 80's was mad, much better than it's made out to have been.

[@christianowens7544]

Come on, be honest, Hayzee Fantazee were rubbish

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

@@christianowens7544 absolutely, but that song was pretty dang catchy

[@TheAdambright]

Only song about anal sex that I can remember!!

[@lemsip207]

I remember it all going synth pop and yuppie in the second half though once the New Romantic era was over. The Style Council had their preppy look on The Lodger's Song video.

[@freetrailer4poor]

Never hard this song in the 80s, but I agree with the lyrics. I reject the city and private homes, I want to go wild in the country in a home with no foundation.

[@happentodie8776]

Cooooor she was a right beauty ...wonder how she looks these days ...gorgeous as a young lady

[@donniet685]

There is live footage of her at a concert in California in 2024. Just search this place and see. -x-

[@DaveMiller2]

Sometimes I miss the 80s. Especially the early 80s.

[@steveforest8385]

I agree - in the very early 80s yes - when a lot of chart music had a typically British, post-punk craziness about it. For me, the mid 1980s turned into a nightmare of transatlantic, suit-wearing gits trying to crack America and MTV by making utterly bland music.

[@stevebrazilio]

What fantastic energy! Love this song, as a teen in '82 I loved AL! if you know what I mean. Brings back great memories.

[@mvitulano]

Everything they are all wearing here(Westwood) would be worth a fortune today!

[@piano40s]

This was good remember it well, and wonderful how instruments didn't have to be plugged in on TOTP and still work.

[@123smotz]

I am an old hippie from Holland but happened to hear this song during a video from Scooter Mods. WOW !!! great song.... snakes in the grass are absolutely free.........

[@MackiePooPoo]

2 GREAT songs! Love the drums!!!

[@lindaCB25]

✨🎶One of the best '80's songs, ✨ever.✨🎶💫

[@Jeremy-iy1zd]

Wow, although it was a little over a month ago, happy belated birthday to me, because this is a gem. As it dates back one day short of a week after I was born. And I just gave away my age, oh crap 😂lol. 🎉 Seriously, this is another reason to celebrate life through music, always. Cheers everyone

[@slyasleep]

Always a relief when it‘s not Jimmy Saville hosting in a clip of TOTP.

[@markottewell8897]

Super song super singer and super bass line!

[@clarkmgb9389]

One of the best rhythm sections ever!

[@Usurped]

Having been woken at 5am as daughter having smoke let dog out and he found a snake in my pond and barked enough to wake neighbourhood, this song came to mind.

[@yarbles67]

I was lucky back in 84. Dated a flip with a Mohawk and fish nets. I think she resented the fact I always said how much she looked the spitfire from bow wow wow.

[@gettinoveritgettinoverit1062]

@yarbles67///🤔...a FLIP??? is that interchangeable with a BIRD???

[@donniet685]

Who do you think looks better these days? Go on, do an online stalk (if you haven't already,lol)

[@trevorwright9801]

Love it

[@steveroybal5404]

A Very Very Fiery Vocalist. She knows how to Sing.

[@dmemcfc3]

Annabella Lwin, Annie Lennox, Chrissy Hyde and the list goes from the 80's were the ones who paved the way for the female lead singers of today

[@discosecret6363]

I come here often. The high point of pop/art.

[@jasonwilliams7752]

Had the 7" vinyl of this when it came out

[@seansands424]

I still got the 12 ,, vinyl

[@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826]

Great song from '82

[@Decimator-jh4gu]

Great song today, too.

[@union310]

No fake lips no silicone jus natural beauty

[@lemsip207]

Just some weird make up and hair styles and colour but make up can be cleansed off and hair styles grow out. I miss those days. Now they are doing irreversiable damage to their bodies with tattoos and plastic surgeries. Lip fillers look terrible for the most part.

[@union310]

@@lemsip207 wait till those lips go down and they look like ja ja binks lol

[@union310]

@@lemsip207 Yeah, fillers stretch the skin so when it is eventually allowed to go back down and the filler reduces, there will be an excess of skin on the lips.

[@lemsip207]

@union3109 There were concerns about Michael Jackson overdoing it with the plastic surgery. His older brothers looked better than he did after a few operations as they had no work done. If he stopped keeping up with the face lifts his face would sag a lot worse than with someone in later life who never had a face lift. I thought Michael Jackson's surgeries would have served as a lesson to us all, but apparently not.

[@donniet685]

I hope she had a daughter (or three).

[@johnknowles1382]

Lovely looking

[@adammitchell1290]

all of this still kicks!

[@leesag6776]

Love this wonderful lady shes still fit

[@slyasleep]

insane song

[@boofuls]

Adam called he wants his band members back 😧😂😂

[@lemsip207]

Dave Barbarossa was the drummer before Adam & the Ants made it big. I thought he was the only ex member of Adam and the Ants who joined Bow Wow Wow but there is one other as well. He later joined Republica. So he went from New Wave-pop crossover to Britpop. He is from Mauritius so was either born there and then moved to London where he grew up or was born in London with one parent from Mauritius.

[@saniyaspaneverydayrecipesi6333]

Watching complete video👍🏼🤝

[@stevehoward3475]

Still love this girl sazzy with plenty of swag😎

[@stenna9274]

THAT BASS.

[@josephalvaro5244]

Killer player,Leigh Gorman,on that Wal bass.

[@guko67]

@@josephalvaro5244 Great bass player. If you listen to 'Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!'. Ahead of his time. Some four, five years later Paul Simon would release his 'Graceland' with the same kind of 'African' bassplaying.

[@jettyjumper21]

I don't like you I don't like you, town I don't wanna like you I'll shop around I don't want you I don't want you, town I don't wanna want you I'll shop around Yeah, I'll shop around I can get a train I don't need no hamburgers No take-away I want my own game No bake and take No strawberry milkshake I want a picnic I'm sick! Sick of seeing signs to eat Walking down these dark, lonely streets Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free I don't know you I don't know you, town I don't wanna know you I'll shop around I'll shop around I can get a train I don't need no hamburgers No take-away I want my own game No bake and take No strawberry milkshake I do better Hell! I'll do better Swinging from the trees Naked in the breeze But I got no boiled chicken I wanna go hunting and fishing Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free I can get a plane I don't need no suitcases 'Cause truth loves to go naked Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free I don't want a picnic 'Cause I get sick Got no boiled chicken I wanna go hunting and fishing Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free I can get a train I don't need no hamburgers No take-away 'Cause I want my own game

[@danielranson1528]

Great song

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Late '81 and Adam has hands-down won the war with Malcy. BWW finally score a couple of consolation goals on the Goofy Bunny's behalf - I Want Candy being the second of two.

[@mattierara]

Was such a cynical move by McLaren. All he wanted was pretty much what they were already doing but with a female singer that he could control.

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

@@mattierara Still a great band and Annabella and her powerful glassy voice was a big part of that.

[@mattierara]

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 for sure!

[@markzee6331]

@@mattierara …and Malcolm would have agreed with you 100% 😂

[@lemsip207]

@@mattierara He was very much a Svengali manager among a long line of them in the 60's and 70's as well including Sharon Osbornes' father. John Lydon absolutely hated him and was reluctant to join the Sex Pistols because of him. He stood up to McLaren, refused to be controlled by him and eventually was sidelined and thrown out of the band which led to the band breaking up after just one album. Lydon ended up being put into the same hotel as the roadies instead of the rest of the band to get him to leave. It turned out that Lydon was recruited by mistake by McLaren through somebody else who was supposed to ask Sid Vicious to join but that person got the wrong John. Sid Vicious's real name was also John. So McLaren got rid of Glen Matlock in order to replace him with Sid Vicious. By then Glen Matlock could play bass reasonably well but Sid Vicious couldn't. McLaren wanted Sid Vicious in the band because he was more easily manipulated. John Lydon did too as they were close friends and Sid was a heroin addict. Lydon thought that being in the band meant that he could keep a closer eye on him and get him off the heroin but that never happened.

[@rayva1]

I like what she’s wearing.

[@jasonpfinch]

Nothing better. I was 12

[@MizzSparkle90]

Great song. We younger ones will remember it from Cavegirl on CBBC

[@michavandam]

- Why does this video start with a messed-up Adam & The Ants logo? - Great band. - Nice prints on their clothes.

[@SlapdashEden]

Because I put it there. Its the theme of this channel. If you have a problem with it then move on. It's simple?? I'm sure you could find similar footage elsewhere that wouldn't outrage you (or miss the fucking rhetoric of this KZbin channel). Enjoy or fuck off

[@michavandam]

@@SlapdashEden I see it's very hard for you to answer a question without getting rude. And for no reason. Thank you for the answer, but not at all for your aggression.

[@colinfaragher5373]

This is what we so called old people do when we retire: we go wild in the country where snakes in the grass are absolutely free!!!

[@moreodat479]

i love it that 100 year olds are on here

[@darranphelps5740]

The original lyrics were changed because they wouldn't get any airtime on the radio. "Where sex in the grass is absolutely free" Much more sense than snakes, but you can understand it sounds very similar when you sing it.

[@RisforRockit]

@@darranphelps5740 Interesting! Where did you learn that tidbit?

[@lemsip207]

@@darranphelps5740 Especially as there aren't poisonous snakes in the British Isles. I have held glo-worms though and allowed them to wrap around my wrist.

[@Usurped]

😂

[@fooman65]

Lol that boobs t shirt....its a classic.....producers must have missed that one.

[@donniet685]

(Sid) Vicious Boobs.

[@lemsip207]

Then just several weeks later the Falklands Crisis started when Argentinian troops invaded the Falklands Islands and the Royal Navy was sent out to battle in the South Atlantic.

[@jfla5700]

She is stunning even with the extreme haircut

[@messenger8279]

Wild times I lived it and I think in this video she wa 14. !

[@susiea9058]

I searched this as if said Malcolm McLaren took Adam Ant's backing group to make Bow Wow Wow. Is that Job Moss from Culture Club on drums?

[@peterclarke6191]

David Barbe, or Barbosa from the original Adam and the Ants. Incredible drummer. Check out their first album Dirk wears white Sox. The drum recording is pretty mushy but he’s doing amazing stuff!

[@MartinBethell-u6k]

Wild woman.lovitxxx

[@David-h4z2s]

Snakes in the grass she sounds like a right posho the way she says sings grass

[@steved1593]

Doesn't get wilder!

[@onlyme219]

Happy days :)

[@donniet685]

The struggle is real. My browser vs intrusive ads. . . so far my browser is winning . . just!

[@markgill7651]

Sexy women, maybe 5 or 6 year younger than me, I loved that song she was wild, I hope she’s still ok 🙏🏻

[@trickerpro9212]

Woww 😮 She so pretty. I think she will be of mixed Asian descent. Because, She has not only the perfect beauty of Asians but also the beauty of Europeans.

[@mattjames4358]

Anglo-Burmese

[@trevorwright9801]

Awesome

[@RobertOrgRobert]

The end of decent music begins here !

[@donniet685]

Noooooo. That didn't happen until the rise of X Factor et al.

[@stevenmoscrop5786]

Love the over exited woman standing next to Simon Bates who just goes over the top mad to this track

[@robocop5935]

This lady has more energy than beyonce. And ga ga.

[@lemsip207]

Exactly. Less manufactured as well though McLaren was a Svengali manager. Better singer. No autotune used.

[@johndaarteest]

I don't think the top that bloke's on the left is wearing would be allowed nowadays on TV. Oh how far we've come and gone backwards lol.

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Malcolm was a genius

[@williambeaver4448]

And as genius goes, manipulative and a dick..

[@CallumFinlayson]

Is that Matt Smith's Dr Who dancing in the background? 0:32-0:35

[@joepollitt7671]

Bow Wow Wee, I was 12 nearly 13 and loved her stuff. This song is the best and gives me confidence when I love dealing with African Artists without European Degrees but are Superior in every way....Snakes in the grass is all too true. Thanks X P.S. Ari Up sends her love.....Of course I know she is DEAD, but she would love your energy...she was never mean like Patti Smith...at the Chelsea Hotel.

[@joepollitt7671]

Check out www.africanartists.blogspot.com I want to write out AFRICAN ART HISTORY...Loving you ALWAYS!

[@marypetrie930]

Eh?

[@johnmccormick1602]

Patti Smiths meanness made her awesome.

[@1000shoeswoman]

SHE WAS BEFOR HER TIME SHAVED HEAD BACK IN THE DAY

[@jenniferevans3688]

That's what I said the other day!! Lol

[@khrystree9233]

Good stuff 🤩fuck, that was a long time ago ......😔

[@telboy1965]

Long live the eighties 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@garywoollard810]

To think she was only 16 here.

[@titietzagar]

Quel punch !!!

[@raylicense363]

Annabel was terrific wasn't she?

[@donniet685]

She was HOT, wow!

[@Bob-q5s]

I always thought she was delicious The band are better than i remember

[@andrewburgess633]

youth incarnate

[@ShannonA-sm8hf]

I guess you live in Laguna beach

[@blaznfattyz]

the style was amazing

[@chefdeth7993]

Wow. Has Geddy or Claypool ever heard of this bassist?

[@donniebradshaw4802]

Wow, she was a really hot piece.

[@Archstanton-gu4uo]

Aah spanish holidays 😊

[@Joshyboy1928]

We don't need no hamburgers!

[@garywoollard810]

Adam Ants band.

[@jacobboehme783]

Stuart Goddard wasn't well mate thats why he was pushed to one side by Mclaren

[@danielwilder7835]

amazed he got away with that T-Shirt on the BBC LOL

[@collywobbles7514]

I was 16 when this was released and get why I used to love watching her. At 58, I now realise she was not a great singer.

[@donniet685]

I bet she screams better than the average . . .

[@djyess1]

cool

[@kevinprior3549]

Annabel was a woman with balls... The British Grace Jones?

[@sheranjanebolton4713]

This ones for george o dowd xs