The Innocents

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There are multiple bands called The Innocents: 1) The Innocents were a new wave band from the United Kingdom who released a single titled "One Way Love" on the Kingdom label in 1980, featuring the former drummer of Advertising. At their start, they were hyped as "England's Answer to Blondie", but the group folded quickly. 2) The Innocents were a power pop band formed in Hobart, Tasmania in 1975, whose popularity peaked in 1980 with their single "Sooner or Later", which reached number 2 in the Australian charts after a performance on ABC-TV's Countdown. The band - originally called Beathoven - featured singer/songwriters David Minchin, Charles Touber, Greg Cracknell and a cast of rotating drummers, are also one of the more tragic stories of major label foolishness and bad timing. After signing a much heralded international contract with EMI (under the Beathoven moniker) the band were overlooked by label management and released from the contract after only releasing the single Shy Girl. At the behest of huge fan Kim Fowley they the moniker The Innocents. With Fowley's influence the band signed with Trafalgar (a subsidiary of RCA) and recorded three singles (including "Come Tonight", also featured on Countdown) and an (unreleased) album before disbanding in 1981. The Innocents reunited in the late 2000, and were invited to play at The International Pop Overthrow festival in the United States. Emboldened by their newfound popularity 2002 saw the release of a 2CD retrospective

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No Hit Wonders From Down Under

The Complete Indigo Recordings

Classic Innocents

No Hit Wonders From Down-Under

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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 6

Pop Factory

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The Innocents:The Complete Indigo Recordings

The Innocents

The Very Best Of

A Baker's Dozen - The Best of the Innocents

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Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story

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The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll vol.1

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