Jane Aire & The Belvederes

This band was one of several new wave acts discovered in Akron, Ohio, USA, by producer Liam Sternberg, and subsequently introduced to Stiff Records. Jane Aire (b. Jane Ashley, 2 December 1956, Akron, Ohio, USA) recorded initially for the Akron Compilation LP in 1978 and became the first of the featured artists to release a single - ‘Yankee Wheels'. Sternberg used a band called the Edge as both session musicians and tour band but renamed them the Belvederes (after a type of turret-like building). The Edge comprised former Damned guitarist Lu Edmunds (later in Athletico Spizz 80...