Saturday, January 16, 2016

January 16th 1959 Sade


For a while in the UK in the mid-eighties the record this song comes from, Sade's debut album Diamond Life, was absolutely everywhere. Epitomising the aspirational, yuppie urge of the time and its need for a soft jazz derivated soundtrack, a lot of the values it spoke to at the time were pretty nasty but several the tracks on the record itself were actually very good. Including this one.

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