The timeless quality of the Dolls' debut album, The Big 3 (DGC Records), released January 28, 1997, owes much to the band's scrappy musical joie de vivre, an of-the-moment attitude that recalls rock's unrefined origins. The Dolls' lineage can be traced from early R&B, through the British Invasion, to the American punk acts who regularly play at T.J.'s, a tiny club located in the band's home base of Newport, in southeast Wales. Singer-guitarist Richard Parfitt recently declared: "If Oasis are the Beatles doing Abbey Road, we're the Beatles in Hamburg!"