Joey's Girl / I'm Recovering From You

This is a Record Store Day 2019 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 13th April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 20th April.

One of the UK's most dearly cherished indie bands The Hit Parade releases a new single on 7" vinyl for Record Store Day 2019. Joey's Girl tells the imagined story of the Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone, who famously fell in love with the girlfriend of the band's singer Joey Ramone's in the 1970s. The song is recorded in lo-fi mono, is produced by R G Watts and will be available in all good record stores in a limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies. The B-Side I'm Recovering From You is a new song about living with a wild and untameable best friend.

The Hit Parade was formed by three school friends in 1984. They have released six albums and 13 singles since and built a small but determined following amongst record fans in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York, Stockholm and Penzance. After touring Japan in the 1990s (with Thee Milkshakes and Edwyn Collins), the Hit Parade went into a period of hibernation although their 2013 single I Like Bubblegum was heralded one of the best singles of the year by Drowned In Sound. Like other Hit Parade 7" vinyl singles, Joey's Girl is cut by hand, written and recorded at home and sold in a limited edition. A new Hit Parade LP is hoped for in 2019.