Saturday, April 21, 2007
On this Cartoon Saturday, we were going to spotlight the Truly Outrageous 80's rock and roll band Jem and The Holograms, but sadly in our efforts to find a good eBay listing related to them, we made a shocking discovery. Apparently two members of the Hologram's rival group The Misfits, Roxie and Stormer, along with Holograms member Kimber (the younger sister of Jem) and the Misfits' number one fan, Constance "Clash" Montgomery have fallen on hard times.
For quick background, Jem and The Holograms were the superstar girl band coming out of Starlight Music in the mid-1980's. The brainchild of studio executive Jerrica Benton, the Holograms were the talk of the town for several years. They turned out multiple singles, had their own television series, participated in a charity relief single, inspired a line of fashion accessories and were pioneers of the fledgling music video industry.
Their main rivals were label-mates The Misfits, led by wealthy heiress Phyllis Gabor (under her stage name Pizzazz), though the critics often cite bandmate Mary "Stormer" Phillips as the real creative force behind the group.
The Holograms and The Misfits were locked in a battle to be the glamour band flavor of the month during their prime, but all good (or tacky, depending on your view of the decade) things must come to an end, so too did the 1980's. With the end of the decade came the end of both The Holograms and The Misfits.
In the ensuing years, Jem herself would perform with a number of smaller bands before settling down and getting married. She now performs to critical acclaim in a duo with her husband.
Fate was not as kind to the rest of the Starlight Music family. Legal troubles and rights negotiations crippled the company and froze the rerelease of all of the back catalog of Holograms and Misfits recordings and television appearances. Rhino Records attempted to reissue the pioneering reality show based on the lives of the Starlight Music roster, but before the project could be completed, the rights sank back into the murky depths of confusion.
The Misfits and the rest of the Holograms made attempts to try their luck at other ventures and in foreign lands, but soon they invariably drifted off into obscurity.
The degradation of the Starlight Music legacy is clear as Kimber, Roxie, Stormer and Clash have been reduced, like Tiffany and Belinda Carlisle before them, into posing for nude photographs.
For quick background, Jem and The Holograms were the superstar girl band coming out of Starlight Music in the mid-1980's. The brainchild of studio executive Jerrica Benton, the Holograms were the talk of the town for several years. They turned out multiple singles, had their own television series, participated in a charity relief single, inspired a line of fashion accessories and were pioneers of the fledgling music video industry.
Their main rivals were label-mates The Misfits, led by wealthy heiress Phyllis Gabor (under her stage name Pizzazz), though the critics often cite bandmate Mary "Stormer" Phillips as the real creative force behind the group.
The Holograms and The Misfits were locked in a battle to be the glamour band flavor of the month during their prime, but all good (or tacky, depending on your view of the decade) things must come to an end, so too did the 1980's. With the end of the decade came the end of both The Holograms and The Misfits.
In the ensuing years, Jem herself would perform with a number of smaller bands before settling down and getting married. She now performs to critical acclaim in a duo with her husband.
Fate was not as kind to the rest of the Starlight Music family. Legal troubles and rights negotiations crippled the company and froze the rerelease of all of the back catalog of Holograms and Misfits recordings and television appearances. Rhino Records attempted to reissue the pioneering reality show based on the lives of the Starlight Music roster, but before the project could be completed, the rights sank back into the murky depths of confusion.
The Misfits and the rest of the Holograms made attempts to try their luck at other ventures and in foreign lands, but soon they invariably drifted off into obscurity.
The degradation of the Starlight Music legacy is clear as Kimber, Roxie, Stormer and Clash have been reduced, like Tiffany and Belinda Carlisle before them, into posing for nude photographs.
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