The Poppees

While they were never as visionary or influential as Big Star, New York City's the Poppees shared that iconic band's love of Beatlesque pop in the classic style at a time when embracing the Fab Four's early work was as unfashionable as you could get, and they lasted just long enough to provide a link from the first stirrings of the power pop movement to the dawn of New York's New Wave scene. The Poppees timeline begins in 1972, when guitarist Bobby Dee Waxman met bassist Paddy Lorenzo; discovering they shared a fondness for British Invasion pop tunes, they decided to form a ba...