Thanks to their collection of catchy brand of alternative pop-rock, they scored several massive hits around the world, including two number ones in the USA. But what happened to the band and its charismatic lead singer Roland Gift now?
The group were created after The Beat came to an end. The duo of Steele and Cox spent eight months listening to over cassettes of new singers, before picking Gift. Their self-titled debut album featured the hits 'Johnny Come Home' and a cover of 'Suspicious Minds'. After releasing two successful albums, by the group came to an abrupt halt. Steele and Cox had become part of the house scene, and released an instrumental single under the moniker 'Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet'.
The trio unofficially called it a day, and went their separate ways. Aside from a one-off single 'The Flame' from their Finest compilation in , they have not worked together since. But then Gift never expected to be famous. Growing up as a mixed-race kid in the s, there were scant black faces in adverts or on television. Because everyone was black or brown or Irish. To me that was normal. At a Clash gig in Leeds he even caught the eye of the singer, Joe Strummer.
It felt like the Sistine chapel ceiling where God reaches down. Their success came despite them being told by industry figures that a white band with a dark-skinned singer would never make it.
But Stax had white musicians and lots of Jamaican reggae was produced by Leslie Kong, who was Chinese. In the lates and 90s, the British film world became more diverse, too.
So what? We all do the same things. Their father ushered them away from us. Division of another kind did for the Cannibals, who fell apart in
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