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Title: Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, New Wave, Art Rock, Los Angeles, California 5/26
Matrix #: SP-4903
Condition: EX-NM (VZ) | Members: Danny E (53' - Alive), Steve B (55' - Alive), John A (57' - Alive), Kerry H (55' - Alive), Richard G (54' - Alive), Sam P (54' - Alive), Leon S (55' - Alive), Dale T (58' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Danny E grew up in a Jewish family with a novelist mother and Air Force father, then dropped out of high school and followed his brother into avant-garde theater.
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Scene Ecology: Oingo Boingo came from The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a surreal Los Angeles theater troupe before becoming a club-era band.
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Life After Music: Elfman later became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable film composers, making Boingo a strange bridge between punk-adjacent clubs and studio-lot power.
