Maybe the same thing would have happened to me; maybe I would have got into trouble with the police, the way you do; basically, thats how its laid out for you.. The real thing group hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy [1] He comes from a mixed-race background, with a Ghanaian grandfather and an Irish grandmother. Liverpudlian quartet the Real Thing, who tackled prejudice and challenged the pop status quo in the 70s, are the subject of Simon Sheridans fond and vital documentary. Dave Smith is still in the Real Thing, as is Chris Amoo, although Chris has also carved out a parallel career as an award-winning dog breeder. The Real Thing's last chart appearance was featuring on the dance track 'So Much Love To Give' by the Freeloaders in 2005, which sampled 'Love's Such a Wonderful Thing' and reached number 9. We never got back to that pinnacle we reached creatively with Can You Feel the Force.. Hi there! If we were going to do anything, wed do it together., The Real Thing were one of the most popular groups of the 1970s in the UK, with five top 10 hits (Credit: Alamy). Their creative range inevitably made them harder to categorise for pop markets; after their floor-filling romantic tunes, their brilliantly gritty 1977 album 4 From 8 was initially regarded as a misfire. For one thing, it's still earning the seasoned actor quite a large chunk of change. Eddy Amoo remembers particular problems for the black community; From my personal point of view, Liverpool was OK. Its always been pretty racist not racist so much in the people that you meet on the streets- but racist in the institutions in Liverpool. Ironically, in retrospect, Eddy feels that as sole songwriters and producers, the band were given too much control over the record; The record company should have made us use a producer. They returned to mainstream success in 1986 with the Decade Remix of "You to Me Are Everything". Mainstream success certainly didnt provide a safety net. [6], In March 1977, the song he co-wrote with his brother "You'll Never Know What You're Missing" was at No 23 in the Billboard chart, having been at No. By 1975 the Real Thing had been signed to Pye records and had also gained a somewhat unlikely supporter; the heart-throb pop star David Essex who had been introduced to the band by Jeff Wayne. For once, black British musicians could rival African Americans. The Real Thing - The Real Thing Weve always seen Toxteth as positive; it gave us grounding, and it was one of the safest places, because there was always somebody around., The proximity to the US Air Force base Burtonwood was also significant; Amoo recalls that black US servicemen would socialise in Toxteth in the 60s and early 70s and theyd regularly bring records with them. We got a standing ovation.) Eddie officially joined The Real Thing, replacing original member Kenny Davis. Real Thing fans were being sent confusing signals about the band. Lightboxes. Is it definitely our Children of the Ghetto? The disco explosion was upon us, but the rising interest in black music was further fed by radio; radio crossed over soul ballads and funk, bump & boogie into the mainstream.
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