St. Valentine's Day Massacre (EP)
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| EP by Headgirl | |||||
| Released | 1 February 1981 | ||||
| Recorded | December 1980 | ||||
| Studio | Jacksons Studios, Rickmansworth, London | ||||
| Genre | Heavy metal | ||||
| Length | 9:33 | ||||
| Label | Bronze | ||||
| Producer | Vic Maile | ||||
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a EP recorded by members of Motörhead and their Bronze Records labelmates Girlschool, under the moniker motör headgirl school. It reached number five in the UK Singles Charts in 1981.
When Girlschool were recording in Rickmansworth with producer Vic Maile, he had the idea that Motörhead and Girlschool should record a single together. The result was this three-track EP, on which the bands duetted on a cover of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' "Please Don't Touch." The bands also covered each other, with Motörhead performing Girlschool's "Emergency" and Girlschool playing Motörhead's "Bomber." The EP was recorded while Motörhead's drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor was recovering from a neck injury sustained playing "who can lift each other up the highest" with a large Irishman, so Girlschool drummer Denise Dufort played on all three songs. The artwork features the two bands dressed as prohibition era gangsters and their molls.
In his autobiography White Line Fever, vocalist/bassist Lemmy Kilmister took aim at critics who accuse him of being a sexist, citing his work with Girlschool and insisting, "When I find good women rockers, I'll lend them a hand. I'll never get any kind of credit for helping advance women in rock 'n' roll, but I have." In 2011, he admitted to John McNair of Mojo, "Truthfully, it's the women that I've lost I think about, not ex-members of Motorhead. Wendy O' Williams was a great woman. Fucking mental. And Kelly Johnson from Girlschool - she died young as well, which was a terrible, terrible shame. I had a small affair with Kelly. She was a good looking girl and a great guitarist. People used to say, "She's all right for a girl,' and I'd be like, 'She's better than you, motherfucker!' On a good night Kelly played like Jeff Beck."
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