Although they never achieved widespread popularity, Paul Collins' Beat enjoyed local popularity in their native Los Angeles, and judging by the crowd noise, they were able to draw a significant crowd in Northern California as well. Frontman Paul Collins began the band following the break-up of the Nerves, whose famous EP featured his "Working Too Hard" alongside the famously Blondie-covered "Hanging on the Telephone" by Peter Case, later of the Plimsouls.
The band broke up temporarily following The Kids, but Collins would revive the Beat with a different line-up for a mini-LP, 1983's To Beat or Not to Beat. With some MTV exposure for "Dance, Dance," they would tour through the late '80s, releasing One Night, their final studio album, in 1988. Following some solo activity by Collins during the '90s, he reunited the Beat with a Spanish line-up in 2006. Paul Collins' Beat continues to perform and record to the present day.
