Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe, PVC Records 1980

One half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide, Alan Vega began his career as a visual artist, gaining notoriety for his light sculptures and eventually opening his own lower Manhattan gallery space which he dubbed the Project of Living Artists. The Project served as a stomping grounds for the likes of the New York Dolls, Television and Blondie as well as the 15-piece jazz group Reverend B., which featured a musician named Martin Rev on electric piano. Rev would later join Vega to form Suicide.

After Suicide disbanded in 1980, both Vega and Rev undertook solo careers, with Vega continuing to explore the fractured rockabilly identity he had established in his earlier work. His self-titled 1980 debut record which contained “Jukebox Babe”, one of his best known songs, defined the kind of rockabilly style that he would follow for some years.