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Evil Superstars

Belgian musical group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ2247839
Source-derived summary

Evil Superstars was a Belgian indie rock band led by Mauro Pawlowski. Among its members was Millionaire and Eagles of Death Metal guitarist Tim Vanhamel.

History

Evil Superstars was formed in 1992 in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

The original members were:

Mauro Pawlowski, vocals and guitar

Marc Requilé, samples and keyboards

Bart Vandebroek, bass guitar

Bart Vandeput, drums

Johan Van Den Berghe soon replaced Bart Vandeput on drums.

In March 1994 the band finished first in Humo's Rock Rally contest. Three months later Johan Van Den Berghe left, and was replaced by Dave Schroyen before recording their first EP, Hairfacts (1995). Tim Vanhamel, aged fifteen, joined the band.

In 1996 this line-up recorded their first album Love Is Okay, soon followed by a second EP Remix Apocalyps. The second album Boogie Children-R-US was recorded in 1997, but record company Paradox, an A&M London subsidiary, postponed the official release for a year. Despite favorable reviews, sales were poor.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Evil Superstars” is belgian musical group. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Evil, Superstars and Belgian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1994, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. For this dossier, Evil, Superstars and Belgian is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2247839. VIAF identifies the subject as 147368251. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from Evil Superstars” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.