GIRLSCHOOL: Emergency 7″ Furniture Fire. Check video. SIGNED Autographed

Description “Emergency is from their debut album and is a classic Girlschool track. It’s fast, furious and punky. As soon as you heard this, it pulled you in. It’s just so raw, but never gets rid of the catchiness. One of the big songs of their career, and as soon as you hear the unmistakable opening, you are caught up!” (says Rock Goddess’ Jody Turner). Here is the 2nd GIRLSCHOOL 7″. What a great guitarist Kelly was (she died of cancer in 2007)! This version of Emergency I always liked best. Slower, heavier, gloomier. Furniture Fire is another of those unsung hits and sure has one of the best song titles I heard. Although the lead part in Furniture Fire is an obvious and shameless KINKS rip off (You really got me), Kelly had a unique style that eventually got adapted to that of Fast Eddie Clark (MOTÖRHEAD). I mean, that is what malicious tongues always said, that it was basically the Bronze labels manager who shaped GIRLSCHOOL. They were designed to be a female MOTÖRHEAD. Well, however much calculation and intention might have been involved, you sure can say that both bands had quite a bit in common. GIRLSCHOOLs first two LPs and of course the incredible St. Valentines Day Massacre EP (which GIRLSCHOOL recorded together with their partners MOTÖRHEAD) sounded like they had come out directly of the MOTÖRHEAD factory. Which is not a bad thing, really. Emergency (1980) Identical riff (almost) to Demolition Boys, but no one was complaining. This was in the band’s Kelly-in-leatherjacket heyday. Running to a mere 2 minutes 47 seconds, “Emergency” was co-written by the original band members drummer Denise Dufort, lead guitarist Kelly Johnson, Kim McAuliffe, and Enid Williams. It was released on the Bronze label in 1980 backed by “Furniture Fire.” Girlschool’s second single release was described by one reviewer from MetalMusicArchives as having “the chorus ‘911 Emergency’ repeated over and over.” Actually it’s 999 in the UK! The song was one of the tracks on the split EP St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, which Girlschool recorded with Motörhead. However, it was Lemmy and company that performed this tune on the disc, though Girlschool’s Denise Dufort played drums as Motörhead’s stickman Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor was recovering from a neck injury. The EP reached #5 in the UK Single Chart in February 1981 and was certified Silver – the best sale performance for the band.