Formed by Rose Carlotti and Stephen Ward from an idea conceived at college in Birmingham and developed in Reading in 1986, when Rose’s sister, Rachael, and Mark Side completed the line-up. Within a year the Heart Throbs had made inroads towards infamy, supporting the Jesus And Mary Chain on tour and releasing ‘Bang’ in a controversial ‘car crash’ record sleeve. Further publicity followed at the close of the decade when the band started up their own Profumo label, named after the political sex scandal that s
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