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'The Lord's Prayer', which was to become a staple of Siouxsie and The Banshees' early live repertoire, was a white-noise assault on the senses and a barometer of the alienation many teenagers felt from the bloated nature of mid-1970s 'arena rock'.  Several line-up changes later, in 1978, Siouxise and The Banshees were propelled into the pop stratosphere. Signed to a major record label, the band released 'Hong Kong Garden' and wrote one of the most influential post-punk albums of all time, The Scream, a savage critique of curtain-twitching suburbia, the cheap titillation of the tabloids, and the dangers of believing and following any one doctrine. 1979's Join Hands, influenced by the political landscape in Britain and further afield, and the catastrophic loss of life in World War One, was a milestone of the band's increasing maturity, from the adrenaline-fuelled stomp of 'Icon' to the phased guitar, saxophone and bells of 'Playground Twist'.  After a tour fraught with fractiousness, a new line up with Slits' drummer Budgie and Magazine guitarist John McGeoch, together with Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Severin, released the band's most experimental album, Kaleidoscope, which was a heady mix of psychedelia and sonorous adventures including the singles 'Happy House' and 'Christine'.  Siouxsie and The Banshees The Early Years explores the adventures, trials and tribulations of a band defying categorisation. 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Both lyrically\nand musically, the Banshees continue to confound expectation with their\nprogressively sophisticated and erudite artistry, yielding the groundbreaking\nsingle ‘Peek-A-Boo’ and propelling the Banshees to number one on the American\nBillboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLive, the Banshees continue to be a breathtaking entity;\nthe theatricality of their stage shows paralleling the grandiosity of their\nsongs. However, the revolving door of personnel changes again threatens to\nderail the band, this time in the form of their (mis)management, until Tim\nCollins starts to unpick and stabilise the Banshees’ shambolic financial\naffairs. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmplifying the strained relations, the first major\nrupture between founder members Siouxsie and Steven Severin, while on tour,\nleads to the Banshees’ hiatus between the end of the Peepshow gigs in December\n1988 and the release of  ‘Kiss Them For\nMe’ in May 1991, reaching the Modern Rock Tracks number one slot for the second\ntime; a noticeable divergence from their volatile chart fortunes in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a resurgence of The Creatures’ activity, and the\nalbum \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e is released in 1989. 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