![]() ![]() In deluxe form (reviewed here) it comes with a bonus DVD with most of the promo videos. ![]() This week sees the release of The Ultimate Collection, a 2CD career retrospective of 27 songs, including three new tracks. ![]() In the 27 years since Diamond Life was released every album bar one, has reached the US Billboard 200 top ten and Sade have won four Grammy Awards – the most recent being earlier on this year for 2010’s Solder of Love. Sade (the band) could easily have fallen prey to this scenario because they ticked both of those boxes – initial success in the US and an image seemingly locked into an era of Yuppies, wine bars and city life.īut Sade Adu, the singer and her band are survivors. A-ha, Pet Shop Boys, Paul Young, Crowded House and even Kylie Minogue all graced the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 once or twice (normally very early in their careers) and then quickly returned to relative obscurity, the American dream quickly turning into a bit of a nightmare. Bands looking for a long, steady relationship with the US record-buying public, ended up with a one-night-stand. The USA in particular, during the 1980s, was a land of false hope for many artists from all over the world. Liberty, Medazzaland, Pop Trash – all albums by the group that died a lonely death while Grunge, Britpop and the Spice Girls – in that order – dominated the pop landscape. Once the ’80s were over the public at large were – with the exception of 1993’s ‘Wedding Album’ – just not interested. Artists who were very successful in that decade often became victims of their own success and ended up trapped forever with an image they might have not wanted in the first place.ĭuran Duran are a good example. ![]()
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