1. Johnny Warman Screaming Jets Youtube

Born in London, England. Best known for his 1981 hit 'Screaming Jets' (from album 'Walking into Mirrors') which featured Peter Gabriel singing backup vocals.

Johnny Warman Screaming Jets Youtube

Warman plays simple straight ahead rock influenced by punk but with the use of sound effects and occasional synths. Played with the band Bearded Lady, then signed to Ringo Starr's Ring-O label released a solo album in Germany. After 'Screaming Jets' went to number 1 in Australia, he released a second album, From The Jungle To The New Horizons, but soon retired from performing to write song.

Built around material first premiered live with his band Three Minutes, erupted around the Australian hit single 'Screaming Jets,' a masterful, electronics-driven slab of wartorn paranoia whose edginess was only amplified by the presence of on effectively keening backing vocals. Wrote the song within half an hour of watching Apocalypse Now, furthering that movie's claim on early-'80s rock immortality ('s 'Russian Roulette' was similarly inspired). But to judge solely by that cut is to overlook a wealth of equally electrifying cuts, similarly recorded with much of 's own band and packed with many of the same dynamics that inhabited his own then-current album. Hints of the -era (not to mention the inevitable, too) shine through some of the sparser numbers, an impression heightened by both 's own, occasionally robotic vocal intonations and the sense that the entire album is an idiot dancing on the edge of Armageddon; the early '80s, of course, saw civilization perched on one of its way-too-regular nuclear precipices, and echoes both the scientific realities and the science-fiction romances of that scenario. As is the fate of so much music that sets out to sound purposefully futuristic, there are moments that have dated somewhat. At its best, however - 'Screaming Jets,' '(SOS) Sending out Signals,' 'Searchlights,' 'Martian Summer' - remains a brittle pulse, foreboding and ferule and as invigorating today as it was on release.

Unavailable for some two decades, was finally reissued in late 2002 - coincidentally at a time when its own political concerns were again taking center stage. The original ten-track album was bolstered by a half-dozen bonus tracks, plus the suitably atmospheric videos for 'Screaming Jets' and the title track.