The STRAY CATS, the band that put Rockabilly music back in the record charts in the early 80s, scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a striking visual 1950s style brought up to date with exaggerated pompadours and colorful tattoos and as well as genuine musical chops that evoked the best players of rockabillys original heyday. Formed by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer, upright bass player Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979, the trio shared a love for Rockabilly music. After banging around New York for a few months, in the summer of 1980, and seeing a pompadoured kid on the cover of UK magazine NME, they hopped a plane to London where a rockabilly revival movement was just beginning to emerge. Their massive hits and videos include Runaway Boys, Rock This Town, Stray Cat Strut (Shes) Sexy + 17, and I Wont Stand in Your Way.