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Annie Nightingale once observantly remarked that, inexplicably, the band Girl are all boys.
One of those boys at this time was Phil Collen, who would go on to assist Def Leppard in their skywards catapult to the big time.
The song, My Number, is a sleazy, drawling affair with truck loads of attitude, with far more in common with The Sweet, The Cars or even the New Romantics than the NWoBHM movement.
Nonetheless, that driving bass, and now familiar Def Leppard riff structuring sits well with the sparse arrangement and diamond sharp guitar screaming. I'm not convinced by the synth noise in the chorus, but the rest of the song is catchy, quirky and plain fun, even if there's not too much mileage in the headbang department.
Girl would go on to produce far superior material to this interesting debut, and singer Phil Lewis would later sing for L.A. Guns, New Torpedos, Torme, Filthy Lucre, The Liberators, and many others.
The most inexplicable thing for me is why the B side of this single is the same as the A side - what a rip-off!