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Following the end of their underachieving glam supergroup <a href="spotify:artist:5i2CDjwlcp76dgdGADwhEG">Jet</a> in 1976, the Radio Stars were formed by ex-<a href="spotify:artist:6c3Aw3EK0gp2WAeIYFhrU3">John's Children</a> vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:4Ya0FdxcOrPNOGbEx4TzKM">Andy Ellison</a>,<a href="spotify:artist:7pwjGKaqnfkvS7eQbHaqyH">Sparks</a> exile <a href="spotify:artist:48RtnmLm9yaeL0DQtST0An">Martin Gordon</a> (bass, songwriting), and Ian MacLeod (guitar) in 1977. Later adding Steve Perry on drums, the group signed to Chiswick Records and released its debut album, Songs for Swinging Lovers, in 1977. On the fringes of both the punk and new wave scene, the Radio Stars were at heart a quirky rock band built around <a href="spotify:artist:48RtnmLm9yaeL0DQtST0An">Gordon</a>'s songs and <a href="spotify:artist:4Ya0FdxcOrPNOGbEx4TzKM">Ellison</a>'s enthusiastic vocals. Adding Trevor White (who was also in both <a href="spotify:artist:7pwjGKaqnfkvS7eQbHaqyH">Sparks</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5i2CDjwlcp76dgdGADwhEG">Jet</a>) in 1978 they put out their second, somewhat disappointing record, Holiday Album. <a href="spotify:artist:48RtnmLm9yaeL0DQtST0An">Gordon</a> left soon after the record tanked, effectively ending the band, though <a href="spotify:artist:4Ya0FdxcOrPNOGbEx4TzKM">Ellison</a> attempted to revive the band's name to little success in the '80s. The group's recordings have been anthologized twice, first on 1982's Two Minutes Mr. Smith by the tiny Moonlight label, then on 1992's Somewhere There's a Place for Us by Ace. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi
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