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Title: Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, New Wave, London
Matrix #: AL 6600
Condition: VG+, sounds great (TC)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Nick Heyward later spoke about how sudden fame hit hard; the teen-idol attention and pressure landed fast, and he was out of the band not long after their breakthrough.
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Band Drama This is the only Haircut One Hundred album with the original lineup. Heyward split in 1983, so the band peaked and fractured almost immediately.
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Media Narrative Pelican West turned them into a major UK pop act, but in the U.S. they were often treated as lightweight style kids, which never matched how carefully the band was built.