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KATRINA AND THE WAVES: SONGS FOR THE COMMON MAN (AND WOMAN)

If it’s Tuesday, this must be... Universal City. You’ll have to forgive this peripatetic foursome if they’re a little disoriented. Plucked from the middle of an Australian tour, Katrina & The Waves have been flown into an uncharacteristically gray California for a full slate of activities.

August 1, 1986
Roy Trakin

KATRINA AND THE WAVES: SONGS FOR IHE COMMON MAN (AND WOMAN)

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by Roy Trakin

If it’s Tuesday, this must be... Universal City. You’ll have to forgive this peripatetic foursome if they’re a little disoriented. Plucked from the middle of an Australian tour, Katrina & The Waves have been flown into an uncharacteristically gray California for a full slate of activities. The night before, they played the Tonight Show, today, they’re ensconced in two hotel rooms doing the requisite spate of interviews for the brand-new elpee, Waves, the follow-up to last year’s self-titled debut, with its hit single, “Walking On Sunshine.”

“The first number was brilliant,” says singer Katrina Leskanich of the group’s performance on the Carson Show, “but the last number was...” She emits what is charitably described as a Bronx cheer. “We did ‘Walking On Sunshine,’ with Doc’s horns providing the fills.”

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