The group's fall was nearly as swift their ascendency - by the end of the '80s, they had fallen apart - but the Stray Cats made an indelible impact, sending the rockabilly revival into the mainstream and setting the pace for the music's continuation over the ensuing decades.
For a few years in the early 1980s, the Stray Cats were one of the hottest bands in rock & roll, racking up Top Ten hits - "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut," "(She's) Sexy + 17" - with the aid of the newly founded MTV, which found their retro fashion visually kinetic. It took some time - and a trip across the Atlantic - for them to succeed, but when they did, it was beyond all expectations. That was by the design of Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker, and Slim Jam Phantom, a trio of Long Island renegades who were attempting to keep the fire of old-time rock & roll burning during the height of punk and new wave. Sporting bodacious pompadours, tattoos, and leather jackets, the Stray Cats looked like a rockabilly band straight out of central casting.
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