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Martha Emily Davis (born January 19, 1951) is an American rock and new wave singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California.She is most famous for being the lead singer of the band The Motels, but has also made several solo albums, contributed many songs to motion pictures, been on television, and worked onstage with Teatro ZinZanni.
In April 2008 Martha Davis/The Motels released two new albums on the same day; The Motels' new studio album This and the Martha Davis solo project Beautiful Life. The solo album was billed as a darkly autobiographical journey through Davis' life. [2]
(Martha Davis solo) 2004 ...So the Story Goes – – – (Martha Davis solo) 2007 Clean Modern and Reasonable – – – Contains acoustic versions of past hits, B-sides and Davis solo material, including new recordings of "Take The L", "Only the Lonely", and "Suddenly Last Summer". 2008 This – – – 2008 Beautiful Life ...
If Not Now Then When is a compilation album containing material from the new wave band, The Motels, plus solo work by Martha Davis.This two disc album is a collection of twenty-seven rare tracks, demos, and recent recordings spanning 2002 to 2006, and outtakes from Davis' solo albums ...So the Story Goes and Beautiful Life.
The Last Few Beautiful Days is the ninth studio album by new wave band The Motels. Martha Davis's eldest daughter Maria inspired many of the songs on The Last Few Beautiful Days album, as she had died in 2016 after battling an opioid addiction.
The band consisted of Martha Davis (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Jourard (lead guitar), Marty Jourard (keyboard, saxophone), Michael Goodroe (bass) and Brian Glascock (drums). [ 3 ] The first single, "Closets and Bullets", did not chart anywhere, but the second single, " Total Control ", became a Top 10 hit in Australia and went Top 20 in France.
McGovern, Davis' boyfriend at the time, clashed with Garay in the studio, and ended up de facto producer and arranger for the album, which was titled Apocalypso. Martha Davis considers this period "the last time the Motels were uninhibited, wild, and not worried about our place on the charts." [2] [3]
The writer had died in February 1983—the same month that the Motels returned to the studio to record Little Robbers. According to Davis, the writer's death and the song's release were purely coincidental. She hadn't read Williams' work or seen the 1959 film version of Suddenly, Last Summer until long after the song was released. [4]