Breakout – Swing Out Sister (1986)

Description

Additional information about this, Swing Out Sister vinyl art.

Swing Out Sister – The Artist/s

Swing Out Sister are a British pop band, best known worldwide for the 1986 song “Breakout”. Other hits include “Surrender”, “You On My Mind”, “Twilight World”, “Waiting Game”, and a remake of the Eugene Record soul composition “Am I the Same Girl”. Although Swing Out Sister is currently a duo, the group began as a trio in the UK. The band was formed by Andy Connell (keyboards) and Martin Jackson (drums); they were later joined by Corinne Drewery (vocals). According to the band’s website, “They christened themselves after an obscure Billie Burke “B”-musical from the ’40s because it was the only name they could agree upon – they all agreed they hated it.”[3] Both Connell and Jackson had been playing in other bands prior to forming Swing Out Sister, while Drewery was a fashion designer and model before she became the band’s lead vocalist.

Breakout- The Song

“Breakout” is a song by British band Swing Out Sister. It was released in September 1986 as the second single from their debut album It’s Better to Travel. Written and performed while the group was still a trio, it became one of their biggest hits, reaching the number four in the United Kingdom.

The Escaping Prisoner – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the silhouette of the 70’s video game Breakout. Breakout is a 1976 action video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades; in Japan, it was released by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player’s goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The concept was predated by Ramtek’s Clean Sweep (1974), but the game’s designers were influenced by Atari’s own Pong (1972). The arcade version of Breakout uses a monochrome display underneath a translucent coloured overlay. The game was a worldwide commercial success. It was among the top five highest-grossing arcade video games of 1976 in the U.S. and Japan, and among the top three in both countries for 1977.

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