One of the few UK indie bands to find any sort of success in the late 1980s were The Primitives. The Coventry-based four piece enjoyed four Top 40 hits between 1988 and 1989, and had a Top Ten album with their debut, Lovely.
Mixing '60s garage rock with sparkly pop, in many ways they were a band out of time. However, their lead singer was a petite blonde who named herself Tracy Tracy, and before you knew it, the British music press were comparing them to Blondie and upselling a ‘blonde’ pop movement out of The Primitives and assorted other guitar groups with blonde singers who were active around that time.
