THE SHAPE OF HISTORY
My fourth single from my 10th Album THE SHAPE OF HISTORY
This video is the most incredible collection of my history, so many memories, for me and for you! So many great moments in my life and in music! Hours and hours, collating all this footage! It makes a perfect visual accompaniment to The Shape Of History.
**Beware there is flash photography in the middle section
I say of this song:
Wendy “Some things never change, I’ll always be the wild girl dancing on table tops till dawn. I love the movie ‘Smithereens’ (1982) by director Susan Seidelman (before she made ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’). That movie woke me up, a clarion call! Where I belonged! Where I was headed! Downtown NYC. I had my first crush from that movie! Richard Hell is so pouty, so mean, but quite nice too?! The opening scene with actress Susan Berman as Wren, going down into the subway and stealing the two-tone sunglasses out of the hands of another passenger, all to the hypnotic sound of The Feelies ‘The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness’ was everything I wanted! Wren goes to the Peppermint Lounge every night to hand out flyers for herself. It’s a rock n roll look at broke down NYC, The Bowery and The Lower East Side. For me, this is heaven! My teenage in Ladbroke Grove had it’s share of misdeeds, scrapes and hi capers in the West London underworld, but when I listen to my New York musician friends talk about their time in no electricity lofts, no elevators, rats, junkies, thieves, my heart goes zing! So that’s what this is! It’s ‘The Shape Of History’ my history. It’s Desperately Seeking Susan, It’s Smithereens, it’s Scorsese’s ‘After Hours’ it’s CBGB, it’s Max’s Kansas City, The Peppermint Lounge, it’s downtown NYC, it’s Cindy Wilson screaming “I’ll give you fish, I’ll give you candy” It’s me, forever, dancing on tables tops til dawn.”
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My album THE SHAPE OF HISTORY is available on Deluxe Double Album: 12" and 10" and there are artwork proofs, test pressings, t-shirts and of course the VIP single packages! As always, my other albums, picture disc vinyls, splatter pattern vinyls, original cd’s and vintage TVV vinyl and cd, posters, t-shirts are all available in my store and personalization is possible! Just ask at
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Thank you for this amazing journey!
My love always to you….
Wendy xxx
Written and Produced and Mixed by Wendy James
Recording Engineer - Tomas Gagliardo assisted by Rosendo Zinny at LeMob Studios, West London, UK, Al Lawson at Mix Studios, West London, UK, Ben Rice at Degraw Sound, Brooklyn NY, USA
Mix Engineer: Jesse Nichols at Atomic Garden West Recording Studio, Oakland, CA. USA
Mastering Engineer: Frederic Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering Inc. Brooklyn, NY, USA
Lead & Backing Vocals - Wendy James
Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Keys, Clarinet - Alex Ward
Additional Lead & Rhythm Guitar - Louis Eliot
Piano, Organs, Keys - Dave ‘The Moose’ Sherman
Bass - Harry Bohay
Drums & Percussion - James Sclavunos
Artwork Design - Wendy Jame & Noah Eve
Photography - David Leigh Dodd
Video - David Leigh Dodd
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