Love Missile F1 – 11 – Sigue Sigue Sputnik (1986)

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An individual, limited edition, example of vinyl art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single featuring the  punk rock single, Love Missile F1- 11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The record was released in 1986, on the Parlophone record label and has been reworked into a vintage style Love Missile with a heart shaped flame coming from its booster rocket engine.

A great framed gift for a friend or family member who is a fan of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Punk Rock, Rockets, Space, Love or has a special memory linked to the song.

Presented in a black wooden box frame
Limited Edition of 100, signed and numbered by myself, the artist

Title: Love Missile F1- 11
Media Artist/s: Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Record Label: Parlophone
Medium: Mixed media, hand cut from an original 7″ vinyl single
Era: 1980s
Genre: Punk Rock / New Wave

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Additional information about this Sigue Sigue Sputnik vinyl art.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – The Artist/s

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band formed in 1982 by former Generation X bassist Tony James. The band have had three UK top-40 hit singles, including “Love Missile F1-11” and “21st Century Boy”. The band’s music, image and inspiration drew from a range of electronic and glam bands such as Suicide and the New York Dolls. The band, which is often just called “Sputnik”, was formed by Tony James, ex-bassist of the defunct Generation X, and Neal X (Whitmore), who recruited singer Martin Degville. Degville was a clothes designer and supplied the band’s wardrobe, and YaYa, the store where he worked, became the band’s base. Their first gig was in Paris, supporting Johnny Thunders, with James’ former Generation X colleague and then drummer for Thunders, Mark Laff, on drums.Mick Jones, formerly of the Clash, worked with the band as live sound engineer, helped manipulate their sound, and appeared with them when they opened for New Model Army. Fachna O’Kelly, manager of the Boomtown Rats who had provided much of the band’s equipment, provided the band with the name Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a reference to a Filipino street gang and meaning, in rough translation “go, go satellite” (“sigue” coming from Tagalog, and from original Spanish meaning “go on”, and Sputnik referencing the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957). The band’s sound was, according to James, arrived at by accident, when he inadvertently mixed elements of film soundtracks with their demo track “Love Missile F1-11” while putting together a video compilation from his favourite films.

Love Missile F1 – 11 – The Song

‘Love Missile F1 – 11’  is the debut single by British band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, released in 1986 from their debut album Flaunt It. It was the band’s biggest hit, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart. The track was produced by Giorgio Moroder, after Prince rejected a request to oversee production, complaining the track was “too violent.” The band approached Moroder due to his work on a number of Hollywood film scores, as well as his early Donna Summer records, with the latter inspiring the band’s trademark repetitive, synthetic bass sound. In the 2000s David Bowie released a cover of the song

The Love Missile – The Shape

This record has been cut into the silhouette of a vintage missile / rocket with a heart shaped flame shooting out its exhaust / rockets.

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Weight 1030 g
Dimensions 25 × 4.5 × 25 cm
Artist Formation

Group / Band

Decade

80's

Gender

Male & Female

Nationality

English

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