Biography
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Real name: Tony James, Martin Degville, Neal X, Chris Cavanagh, Ray Mayhew
Effective period / Period of releases: 1986 - 2011
Members: Tony James, Neal Whitmore, Chris Kavanagh, Martin Degville, Miss Yana Ya Ya, Ray Mayhew, ViVi Org, Jenny Z, Christopher Novak
British New Wave band founded in 1982 in London by former Generation X bassist Tony James.Sigue Sigue Sputnik, as a supposed reference to a Russian street gang and meaning, in rough translation "burn, burn satellite" ("sigue" coming from a form of the Russian verb сжигать, meaning burn, and Sputnik referencing the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957).