Posted on 05/06/2015 11:17:20 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Hot Chocolate lead singer Errol Brown has died aged 71, his manager has said.
Brown had liver cancer and died at his home in the Bahamas, said Phil Dale.
Hot Chocolate had hits in more than 50 countries worldwide, including You Sexy Thing - which Brown co-wrote - It Started with a Kiss and Every One's a Winner.
Brown was made an MBE by the Queen in 2003 and received an Ivor Novello award for his outstanding contribution to British music in 2004.
You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate's best-known hit and a top 10 single in the 1970s and '80s, charted again in the UK when it was featured in The Full Monty in 1997.'
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Music ain’t music no mo.
It was very ‘disco.’
You sexy thing..... #1 in all strip clubs.
NO JOKE.
I got to reading various webpages as a result, and came across some really interesting stuff regarding the very distinctive Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizerused on Every 1s A Winner. It's amazing... there are some fascinating YouTube videos of the operation of that particular guitar controller that really are worth seeing... and I am not a guitarist.
I can't find a way to give a non-mobile link to the guy's YouTube channel but search YouTube for "Roland GR-500 GS-500 1970s Analog Guitar Synth"... the poster's name is "Wayne Joness".
Yes, they were a soul band, even if the famous late 70s hits were leaning more to disco-soul/disco pop.
Their beat was disco, not remotely related to traditional soul.
Soul was always slow dancing.
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The real shocker for me was "Heatwave" being a British band.
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