(From Top Of The Pops TV show; 1988)
Todd Terry released the proto-Rave classic Can You Party? under his Royal House pseudonym in 1988, and it was the first New York Hip-House track to blow up in Britain. When that shit become a U.K Top 20 hit in late '88, Terry was invited to perform the track on our weekly TV music chart show Top Of The Pops. The urban rumour has always been that none of the people onstage are #actually Todd Terry, and Champion Records who licensed Can You Party? for U.K release just hired Sonique and three black British blokes to pretend to be Royal House. I've always subscribed to this theory until I saw this late 80s picture of Todd minus his trademark baseball cap. The bloke up front miming the "CAN YOU FEEL IT?"s is him innit? Dial M for Martorialist if you agree!
Does look like him.
ReplyDeleteHow did I not know Sonique was a member of S-Express?
She wasn't a member for the first album tbf. I Should probably edit that because she was yet to join them in 1988.
ReplyDeleteI will never get tired of those King Of The Beats sirens.
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