Elton Motello is both the moniker of Alan Ward, the lead singer and songwriter, and the name of the band itself. Alan Ward was formerly a member of the glam punk band Bastard along with Damned guitarist Brian James, Dez Lover and Nobby Goff. Motello then recruited a new set of musicians including Mike Butcher (aka Jet Staxx who had played on Jet Boy,Jet Girl), Willie Change (bass), and Nobby Goff (drums), to record debut album Victim of Time, which also featured guest appearances from former Pretty Things and Pink Fairies drummer John Twink Alder, Tony Boast, and Peter Goff (guitar). Motello returned in 1980 with a second album, Pop Art, now backed by Butcher, Andrew Goldberg, J.P. Martins, and Walter Meter. Two singles followed towards the end of the year, after which the band split up. Alan Ward had toured Belgium with Bastard, and through his connections there Motello debuted with the Jet Boy, Jet Girl single in 1977 on the Belgian Pinball label, initially backed by session musicians. These session musicians - Mike Butcher (guitar), John Valcke (bass) and Bob Dartsch (drums) - had recorded the backing track also used on the hit single of Plastic Bertrands Ca plane pour moi. While the single in English made little impact (Except in Australia, where it was released on the RCA label and made the lower reaches of the Top Forty), the song was sometimes supposed to form the basis for Plastic Bertrands internationally successful hit Ça plane pour moi, with new lyrics over the backing track.[Actually, the song Jet Boy, Jet Girl was a simultaneous adaptation. In Australia, Jet Boy Jet Girl has appeared in a television commercial, though the commercial only included the chorus and none of the once-controversial lyrics.
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