Editing Models (band) (section)

===1977–1979: Early years===
In 1977 Melbourne school friends Sean Kelly and James Freud formed their first band, Spread, which was soon renamed Teenage Radio Stars. They recorded two tracks for Suicide records' ''Lethal Weapons'' compilation album (1978).

Singer and guitarist [[Sean Kelly (Australian musician)|Sean Kelly]] left in 1978 to form Models with bass guitarist Peter Sutcliffe (a.k.a. Pierre Voltaire and Pierre Sutcliffe, who won $503,000 in May 2014, on Australian TV quiz show ''[[Million Dollar Minute]]'')<ref name=quiz>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/05/500000-prize-won-on-million-dollar-minute.html |title=$500,000 prize won on Million Dollar Minute |last1=Knox |first1=David |date=5 May 2014 |website=TV Tonight |access-date=6 May 2014}}</ref> and [[Ash Wednesday (musician)|Ash Wednesday]] (formerly of [[JAB]] on keyboards, Sutcliffe and Janis Friedenfelds (a.k.a. Johnny Crash) on drums and percussion.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/> Models were more pop influenced than the earlier punk bands and had a wider appeal.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/> The initial version of the group did not stay together for long as, after six months, Sutcliffe was replaced on bass by Mark Ferrie (ex-Myriad). In August 1979, Wednesday was replaced by [[Andrew Duffield (musician)|Andrew Duffield]] from [[Whirlywirld]] on keyboards.<ref name="Howl"/><ref name="Howl2"/> Their first release in October 1979 was a give-away, shared single, "Early Morning Brain (It's Not Quite the Same as Sobriety)" backed with [[The Birthday Party (band)#The Boys Next Door|The Boys Next Door's]] "Scatterbrain".<ref name="McF"/><ref name="MemTV"/> Friction within the band led to their decision to break up in November 1978. However they rapidly reformed at the end of December when ex-[[The Easybeats]] members, [[Vanda & Young|Harry Vanda and George Young]], who were now record producers and songwriters, offered to cut some demos for them – <ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/> Their second single, "Owe You Nothing" appeared in August 1980. Both singles were released on independent labels<ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="Mushroom"/> and did not chart on the Top 40 Australian singles chart according to the [[Kent Music Report]].<ref name="Kent"/>