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, England. It consisted of Cliff Fox on vocals and guitar,

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on guitar, Mick Allen on bass and Terry Day (Terry Lee Miall) on drums. Pirroni and Miall later achieved international fame as members of

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- as a result, the band has received coverage in reference books such as Pete Frame's '' Rock Family Trees'' and Adam Ant biographies such as James Maw's ''The Official Adam Ant Story'' and Ant's own autobiography ''Stand and Deliver''. Pirroni and Allen became friends while attending art school in Harrow. When punk emerged in 1976, they first formed

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, playing guitar, although for only a brief time. Shortly after that, he and Allen formed a band called The Beastly Cads, who later changed their name to The Models. The band only released one single "Freeze" and recorded four songs for a

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before dissolving. Later, Pirroni and Allen formed Rema-Rema, a

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band. Pirroni later re-teamed up with Day, who by then was using his real name Terry Lee Miall, in

, beginning to work alongside that band's singer and frontman,

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. Allen went on to other projects, the longest running being The Wolfgang Press on the influential British record label

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. After the demise of the band he paired up with Giuseppe De Bellis, to form the experimental project Geniuser.

References

External links

PUNK77: The ModelsMySpace: Terry Lee Miall (formerly Terry Day) (official)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Models, The English punk rock groups Musical groups from London