Do anything you wanna do is a song written by eddie and the hot rods manager ed hollis the brother of talk talks mark hollis and guitarist graeme douglas and recorded by the band, although the actual record label credited the rods as the artist. The group broke up in 1985, but have reformed several years since. Their live shows became the thing of legend, as documented on the live at the marquee ep in 76. Do anything you wanna do is a song written by eddie and the hot rods manager ed hollis and guitarist graeme douglas and recorded by the band, although. They are best known for their 1977 uk top ten hit do anything you wanna do, released under the name the rods.
So that you can join us in celebrating barrie, we have published the full done everything we wanna do show from earlier this year. Gonna break out of this city leave the people here behind searching for adventure is the type of life to find tired of. Gonna break out of this city leave the people here behind searching for adventure is the type of life to find tired of doing day jobs with no thanks for. Jimmy page, aleister crowley and the curse of eddie and the hot rods posted on march 27, 20 14 comments for the full story of the curse of do anything you wanna do, see my interview with the band in this months issue of uncu t magazine. In those pre download days, holliss library was an allimportant resource.
The rods were one of the first bands to be described by the music press as punk and in 77, with the addition of graeme douglas on guitar and songwriting, they hit the uk top 10 with the anthemic do anything you wanna do. Read about do anything you wanna do by the rods and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Eddie and the hot rods writing on the wall discogs. The band formed in 1975 and had a top 10 chart hit in 1977 with do anything you wanna do. It was a sold out show, and a real reunion for friends who had. Im gonna break out of the city leave the people here behind searching for adventure its. Eddie and the hot rods do anything you wanna do lyrics. Eddie and the hot rods were a pub rock band from essex founded in 1975.