Within 12 months of the Notorious B.I.G. taking him on the road, Smoothe Da Hustler had the hip-hop world at his feet.
‘If Sugar Was As Sweet As You’
Long before he secured his pension with 1977’s clowning disco biscuit ‘Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)’, Joe Tex was a prolific singles artist
‘Jellyfish’
There’s no messing with ‘Jellyfish’.
‘Please Forgive Me... But I Cannot Endure It Any Longer’
How did Pete Shelley’s ‘Homosapien’ fail to be the defining hit of 1981?
‘You’re Losing Me’
Not to be confused with confessional poet Anne Sexton, South Carolina soul singer Sexton knew all about baring her soul, specialising in woe-begone smoky ballads charting her romantic disappointments.
‘Live Like An Angel (Die Like A Devil)’
“Loving hard and getting high/Hell’s the place I’m gonna die,” growled Cronos on the punk-paced flip of Venom’s first single.