Telekin was formed in 1980, in Hollywood , California, by former child actor Teddy Quinn (‘the Aspirin Boy’; “Does it Hurt and Have a Temperature?’; “Mothers are like that. Yeah, They Are!”) and Catherine (Cathie Kimble) Shinn (The Deadbeats; Geza X and the Mommymen), along with Quinn’s former band-mates (from the unironically named The Eighties, best known in town for their buttons, worn ubiquitously in 1979), Donald Kaiser and Denise Fraser; Quinn’s sister, Debra; and Shinn’s 'spiritual sister’ Elizabeth (Taylor) Taubman.