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She is going to go to rehab, oh yeh yeh yeh

Free Electric Band by Albert Hammond from 73. Lyrics sound almost corny now but still a great tune.

Why has this well-deserving thread not moved back to the top?.............................

Chaka Khan did one of the classic unheralded albums of the 70s for me with Rufuzised [74] with her band at the time.

Thanx for that, jnedley. I didn't know much about Betty before this. She was a Fierce Mama indeed.

Blimey! So many songs! I only know Hello Mary Lou and It's late.

Apparently Jim Kerr hated this song and refused to record it at first but was talked round.

The "Sexual Healing" video reminds me of a Benny Hill sketch which is a terrible comedown for the man who gave us the Let's get it on album.

A song that I recall with some affection, a good fun tune. It was only recently that I've heard of the pressure the group came under to take the word "white" out of the lyric from their record company. They refused, of course, and I am so glad they stuck to their guns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrNTMOUtjfE

Ooh, I'm so envious. It seems to be a sad fact of life that no so many recorded performances exist from Stevie's heydey although there are plenty of him dueting with the world and his wife when he was long past his truly productive phase. So it goes with all greats, I suppose, witness Sinatra, similarly dueting with anybody and everybody in his declining years when video had become a much more accessible medium. The Living for the City one still puzzles me tho. I watched it in 74 so it must still exist in the BBC vaults, somewhere.

Here's another one: Visions from the Innervisions album, although I first discovered it on the b-side of Living for the City [which I still havn't been able to find!!]

I'm hardly a bastion of the anti-drugs movement, Dude. I like a smoke, I drink, and even indulge in Cocaine on special occasionans, but Marvin was a sad sight on the "Healing" video, for me, he looked like he was washed out and it's a shame when you see some of the videos posted on here from the early 70s. It may sound corny but I think when drugs become an intregal part of your day - as apparently they did for Marvin in his final years - you lose your "soul".

I'd love to see this as long as Marvin isn't in the state that he was when he made the "Sexual healing" video when he looked like what he was by that stage: a long term drug user.

I must admit that I don't understand this because I always thought that jointly composed songs had their profits paid out evenly and separately to each composer. I know there has been problems with intra-band agreements whereby composers have also allocated themselves an extra share of all the band's earnings so maybe the disagreement is more along those lines.

and this one: Superstition I tried to find the video of Stevie's classic 74 performance of Living for the city on UK's TOTP but it eludes me. Still it was a magical era as Stevie grew into his 20's and began to open his experimental wings...with unforgettable results.

I bought the follow up album which was bloody diabolical and like tpj says [in a roundabout way] I never trusted Prince enough to buy another of his albums, although to be fair none of the singles made me want to either. Purple Rain, then, must be the seminal Prince album. 1984.

The Delfonics had a classic sound in a classic era for that kind of music. Later, I heard the name "Major Harris" mentioned alot too although I'm not sure if I've ever actually heard any of his solo stuff played on the radio.

I'm sorry but I think this is the daftest article I've ever read! If he doesn't like publicity why doesn't he stop giving interviews about it?

This song was in the first chart show that I ever listened to - too long ago to remember properly - so it is nice to hear it again after so long.

The Chi-lites worked with Jackie Wilson on his last album in 1975 and helped tp produce the finest track of the album and its most successful single, which shows they were not above working with a friend who was abit down on his luck. They went up in my estimation after I found out about that.

Thanx for that reminder of the Isley's seminal album: 3+3. Brilliant.

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Thankyou Pussy. I really appreciate this. X

Yes, got to agree with Umma on this one. I was hearing the original recordings thirty years ago [give or take a year, depending on the track]; these remixes are for a new generation who don't know Marley's work yet, not the likes of me.

I remember hearing Jim's posthumous hits on American chart programmes [he didn't chart in the UK] but I never knew the details of how he met his end until reading this thread. It's always a strange phenonemon when a promising artist dies young, cults grow up, it's like they can't spoil the magic of their work by a fall in standard further down the line, and what might they they have done if they had survived always intrigues us.