Artist: Missing Persons
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Best Of
Year: 1987
Tracks: 15
Famed as practically for their video-ready space age epitome as for their music, the Los Angeles-based New Wave turnout Missing Persons formed in 1980, a year afterwards the marriage of vocalizer Dale Bozzio and her drummer husband Terry. A one-time extremity of Frank Zappa's mount band, Terry Bozzio met the former Dale Consalvi (an ex-Playboy Bunny) at a Hollywood recording studio; after institution Missing Persons -- ab initio dubbed U.S. Drag -- the twosome recruited familiar Zappa alumna Warren Cuccurullo on guitar and Patrick O'Hearn on bass, and with classically trained keyboardist Chuck Wild in towage, they began acting area clubs.
In 1981, the band released its self-titled debut EP; after sign language to Capitol, the label reissued the criminal record in 1982, and the singles "Words" and "Destination Unknown" both intimately hit the Top 40. Their videos too helped Missing Persons find achiever on the newbie MTV web, where Dale Bozzio's hiccuping voice and camp look (comprised of shocking-pink pilus and sci-fi outfits capped off with Plexiglass bras) combined with the group's synth-driven songs to make them naturals for heavy rotation. Later in 1982, the mathematical group issued its first gear full-length album, Spring Session M (an anagram of their name), which launched the underground smash "Walk in L.A."
After 1984's Verse and Reason jagged alone a minor hit with the single "Feed," Missing Persons enlisted Chic's Bernard Edwards to produce 1986's dance-pop movement Coloration in Your Life; the album stiffed, however, and both the band and the Bozzios themselves bust up. While Dale Bozzio issued unitary solo album on Prince's Paisley Park label, Terry Bozzio went on to work with Jeff Beck; Cuccurullo, meanwhile, joined Duran Duran, O'Hearn recorded several instrumental new geezerhood albums, and Wild composed music for films and television.
