Lene Lovich

Among the quirkiest figures in new wave, Lene Lovich spliced off-kilter art sensibilities with a fondness for pop hooks -- a combination that brought her to Stiff Records, a label that specialized in such oddities. Stiff helped Lovich's percolating "Lucky Number" become an unexpected Top Ten hit in the U.K. in 1979, a success that helped keep the singer on the lower reaches of the charts through the earliest years of the '80s. By the start of the '90s, Lovich had retired from music, but she launched the occasional comeback in the ensuing decades, including releasing the Shadows and Dust album in 2005.