1993
Golden Lights
About This Album
Recalling Twinkle for anything other than the 1965 death ballad "Terry" demands a feat of memory far beyond the majority of British Invasion fans. But dismissing her as simply a one-hit-wonder whose greatest subsequent claim to fame was having a follow-up covered by the Smiths ("Golden Lights") is an injustice that this collection goes out of its way to remedy. "Terry" itself is magnificent -- Phil Spector meets the Shangri-Las on a rain-slicked English back-road. Banned by both the BBC and British TV's top pop show, Ready Steady Go, on the grounds of bad taste, it made the U.K. Top Five without touching the brakes and should have set up Twinkle for never-ending fame. And it might have -- one can only imagine what would have happened had her early career been handled by Andrew Loog Oldham, for example, as opposed to a last-gasp hurrah. For Twinkle's own team was considerably less well-versed in her requirements, while she herself swiftly lost patience with the star machine cranking noisily around her. The shimmering "Golden Lights," the follow-up single, was a barely disguised assault on the ease with which fame changes people, written from the point of view of a faithful girl spurned by her newly glittering boyfriend, while a sparkling cover of Reparata & the Delrons' "Tommy" was harpooned by Twinkle's own loathing of the song.
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