  The quartet's 1980 debut, Demolition, reached the U.K. Top 30,
but was surprisingly not issued in the U.S. (despite spawning
four popular singles back home: "Emergency," "Nothing To Lose,"
"Yeah Right," and "Race With the Devil"). Girlschool's sophomore
effort, 1981's Hit & Run, proved to be even more successful,
peaking at number five on the British album charts, while a
collaboration with their pals in Motörhead, an EP called The St.
Valentines Day Massacre, hit number five on the British singles
charts (due in part to the irresistibly raucous track, "Please
Don't Touch"). Hit & Run would also turn out to be the first
Girlschool album issued stateside, albeit with a different track
listing than the original U.K. version (the U.S. version was
more or less a compilation of both of their albums). 1982's
Screaming Blue Murder and 1983's Play Dirty both failed to
perform as impressively on the U.K. charts as their predecessors
did, the latter of which contained a more commercial sound and
was produced by Slade