Det var inte många svenska artister som låg på engelska skivbolag under 80-talet, men
Kristina Lindell var en av dem. Skivbolaget hon låg på hette The Compact Organization, och hon gav ut skivor under namnet
Virna Lindt där.
Här är hennes debutsingel från 1981:
Attention Stockholm
Några axplock från en kort
biografi över Virna Lindt:
While on a train bound for London, Lindt met songwriter and record producer Tot Taylor and told him of her plan to make a record like "a Hitchcock theme with a rock n' roll beat." ...
Within the month, Attention Stockholm was on top of the indie chart, had become a Smash Hits Single of the Week and a Time Out Pick of the Week ... Lindt was interviewed in every music magazine, as well as features in The Times and The Guardian, and an appearance on UK TV ...
In the first half of the Eighties, the 'spy' concept was appropriated by many - Eurythmics, Who's That Girl, the Human League's Dare album. But Virna Lindt was there first. Even Elvis Costello acknowledged Attention Stockholm one of his favourite singles.