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his London-based post-punk/gothic band were briefly in vogue in the early 80s. They were built around vocalist Andi Sex Gang, who talked himself into support slots for which he needed quickly to assemble a new band. He eventually settled on Dave Roberts (bass), Terry McLeay (guitar) and Rob Stroud (drums), who played their first gig under the name Panic Button. The name Sex Gang Children was taken from a William Burroughs book and was actually on a list of names with which fellow King's Road fashion victim Boy George was toying. It later transpired that Boy George had in turn taken it from Malcolm McLaren's original suggestion for a moniker for the band that would become Bow Wow Wow. By 1982, a number of bands in the same mould began breaking through in the capital. Sex Gang Children's first vinyl release was a 12-inch titled "Beasts", produced by Nicky Garrett (ex-UK Subs), after which Tony James (Generation X, later Sigue Sigue Sputnik) began to take an interest in the b...