Fact #165869
When:
Short story:
The album Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D’Arby enters the UK chart, where it will peak at No1 during a chart run of 67 weeks.
Full article:
Johnny Black : This man has got soul. You know? The thing that Hollywood Beyond looked like he was going to have but didn’t.
He can sing. He can write tunes. He understands the needs of the dance floor and the needs of the pop chart and even the needs of the jaded music critic, nursing numb ears under his headphones and waiting to hear something different. This debut album is different.
That Terry is an arrogant little mother is evident from his press interviews but, irritatingly, he’s actually got something to be arrogant about. He doesn’t rip off Prince or Michael Jackson or any of the other megastar icons who have inspired a thousand imitators. No, young Terence is mostly an original, who derives a smattering of inspiration from further back, from James Brown, Otis Redding, Jimmy McGriff, Stevie Wonder, The Persuasions, but he’s also absorbed the works of Culture Club and his lyrics speak of a man who reads serious books, proper literature even.
Heck, if he goes on like this, he’s going to make the best damn pop records of the 1980s. I can hardly wait.
(Review first appeared in CD Review magazine, October 1987)
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He can sing. He can write tunes. He understands the needs of the dance floor and the needs of the pop chart and even the needs of the jaded music critic, nursing numb ears under his headphones and waiting to hear something different. This debut album is different.
That Terry is an arrogant little mother is evident from his press interviews but, irritatingly, he’s actually got something to be arrogant about. He doesn’t rip off Prince or Michael Jackson or any of the other megastar icons who have inspired a thousand imitators. No, young Terence is mostly an original, who derives a smattering of inspiration from further back, from James Brown, Otis Redding, Jimmy McGriff, Stevie Wonder, The Persuasions, but he’s also absorbed the works of Culture Club and his lyrics speak of a man who reads serious books, proper literature even.
Heck, if he goes on like this, he’s going to make the best damn pop records of the 1980s. I can hardly wait.
(Review first appeared in CD Review magazine, October 1987)