If you know, you know, but if you don’t, Miriam Linna is here to fill you in. When it comes to obscure Rock and Roll, Doo-Wop or Rhythm and Blues 45’s, pulp
If you know, you know, but if you don’t, Miriam Linna is here to fill you in. When it comes to obscure Rock and Roll, Doo-Wop or Rhythm and Blues 45’s, pulp paperbacks, Black magazines long gone hair products, rare jukeboxes or teen gangs in 1960’s Switzerland, Linna’s got a line on it. The proprietor of Norton Records and Kicks books, she’s running a business that feels more like a mission than an occupation.
Linna left The Cramps before their first proper album to join Nervus Rex and later formed the A-Bones with her husband Billy Miller, who she had met in a record store in 1977. ‘Trouser Press’ praised the band’s “sloppy enthusiasm, joyously cruddy sound built on Linna’s simple but effective pounding, Miller’s manly grunt and Bruce Bennett’s unexpectedly inventive guitar work”.
There have been some “great moments in Norton history”, Linna mentions, including their recording of Ronnie Spector and Andre Williams doing ‘It’s Gonna Work Out Fine’ and the time that the great Dion called her up to tell her that he had an unreleased album for them that had sat on the shelf for decades, as well as coaxing Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las to “come out of the woodwork” to do a new lp.
Also just out from Kicks Books is an unexpected photographic history of teen street gangs in Switzerland covering the decade beginning in 1962. Edited by Linna, the book ‘Halbstark Baby – Baby Halbstark’ – after an obscure German song – will be launched during a three-day-only exhibit of the photos at the FROSCH&CO gallery, an event that was organized by the Swiss Consulate.
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