Genius/iconoclast music mogul Malcolm McLaren wasn’t limited to management of The Sex Pistols and his own musical achievements.

Looking for a vehicle to promote his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood’s fashion line, McLaren convinced Adam Ant’s original backing band to jump ship and form a new wave band dressed in Westwood’s finery: Bow Wow Wow. Following the Adam & the Ants formula [pop melody + twangy surf guitar + Burundi drumming], and aided by the sex appeal of teenage singer Annabella Lwin, Bow Wow Wow made a major impact on the New Wave movement in the U.S. and UK. The band scored their second U.S. charting single, “Do You Wanna Hold Me?” in February, 1983.