Skin Games were a

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pop/

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band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Critically acclaimed as artists, they never gained commercial success, and broke up after just one album, ''The Blood Rush'', released in 1989. The soaring vocal style of lead singer Wendy Page has been compared with both

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and

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but the music is otherwise hard to categorise. The band released a number of singles from the album, but only "Brilliant Shining" managed to gain any significant airplay. Other notable tracks include the Steve Hillage-produced "Cowboy Joe", "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Tirade". Skin Games were: * Wendy Page (vocals) * Jim Marr (bass guitar) * Jonny Willett (lead guitar) * Dave Innes (drums) * Adam Lee (keyboards) Despite sinking with relatively little trace, Wendy Page and Jim Marr went on to pen some hits for

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(" Perfect Moment") and

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", "

Because We Want To "Because We Want To" is a song performed by British pop singer Billie. The song was written by Wendy Page, Jim Marr, Dion Rambo and Jacques Richmond, and produced by Page and Marr for Billie's debut album ''Honey to the B'' (1998). It was rele ...

") and wrote and produced "Dangerous To Know" on

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third album ''Third Album'' is the third studio album released by the Jackson 5 on Motown Records, and the group's second LP released in 1970, on September 18. ''Third Album'' featured the group's fourth consecutive No. 1 single on the US pop charts, " I' ...

. In 1999, Page collaborated with production duo

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on the album '' Eleven to Fly'', co-writing and providing lead vocals on the majority of the tracks. She also continues to have a solo career.

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