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Famous People Bad Manners 1976 - Present
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Name Bad Manners
Bad Manners
Bad Manners
Recording 1976 to Present
Band
Members
Buster Bloodvessel Chris Welch
Marcus D. Bush Nick Welsh
Brian "Bogingone" Chewit John Dutton
David Farren Ian Fullwood
John Gale Matt Godwin
Gus Herman Jason Richardson
Chris Kane Jon Thompson
Andrew Marson Louis Cook
Martin Stewart  
Origin London, England
Biographical Notes

Bad Manners are an English 2 Tone ska revival band. Fronted by Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle), the band was formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School near Manor House, North London.

They were at their most popular during the late 1970s and early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands, such as Madness and The Specials and The Selecter, filled the charts. Bad Manners spent 111 weeks in the British singles charts between 1980 and 1983.

After becoming popular in London, Bad Manners signed to Magnet Records in 1980 for a six figure sum, and then became more well known. Some of Bad Manners' more notable hits include "My Girl Lollipop", "Lip Up Fatty", "Ne Ne Na Na Na Na Nu Nu", "Lorraine", "Just A Feeling", "Walking In The Sunshine", "Can Can" and "Special Brew".

One of the main reasons for their notoriety was their outlandish huge-tongued and shaven-headed frontman, Buster Bloodvessel. His manic exploits got them banned from the British BBC TV chart show Top of the Pops. The band was also banned from Italian TV after Bloodvessel mooned a concert audience, after being told that the Pope was watching on TV.

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