Vicious Rumors

Timex Social Club

Do any songs bring back memories of cruising down the road with the windows down and the cassette deck blasting out a jam for all within earshot to hear? This is one of those songs that does it for me. In 1986, when this song hit, I ran out to Sam The Record Man store and snapped up this 12”, brought it home and recorded it to cassette immediately. I blasted this jam over and over for months. There are several conflicting stories about who was the driving force behind Timex Social Club This much we do know, the record was produced by Jay King and Denzil Foster. Members of the group at that time were Marcus Thompson (founder), Michael Marshall (lead vocals), Alex Hill and Kevin Moore. The band went through lineup changes and Jay King and Denzil Foster went on to form Club Nouveau.

Vicious Rumors

PARADE

xfm 25 presents classic albums from the year 1986

prince and the revolution
parade - music from the motion picture, 'under the cherry moon'

“Parade” was Prince’s 1986 follow-up to “Around the World in a Day” and the soundtrack to his second film “Under the Cherry Moon”. The album revealed a complex new jazz influenced sound, featuring lush orchestral arrangements (from Clare Fischer) and a very European flavour.

“Parade” featured the number one single, "Kiss" – along with key tracks; “Girls and Boys”, “Anotherlover”, and “Sometimes it Snows in April”. It was also the final album that Prince released with the Revolution.

The series is entitled "25" takes a look back at classic albums released in 1986. We started off the series in January with Metallica's "Master Of Puppets", followed in Feb with Public Image Ltd's "Album", at the end of March the third documentary, is going out, about Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration", and we kick off our documentary about "Parade" from Prince And The Revolution followed by playback of the entire album.

We've conducted a 40 minute interview with Dr Fink - Revolution member legend and all around nice guy, was more than happy to go into detail and answer all the questions we asked. Obviously since the documentary is only an hour long, it'll be edited down to the most relevant stuff regarding the album, but we should be able to upload the entire unedited interview online after the documentary goes out at the end of April.

We've also got Bobby Friction (BBC R1/Asian Network DJ and huge fan) giving his views on the album, we have Bill Oddie talking about their favorite tracks on the album and the story of "Kiss" being created (talking about Mazarati and David Z), Brett Anderson from the band Suede went out of his way to talk about the album for us as he's a huge fan, and we'll hopefully be conducting an interview with Clare Fischer regarding his input on the album..... we touched on some other stuff that happened in 1986 such as Manic Monday being a hit (and credited to Christopher Tracy)...

All in all, this will be of interest to hardcore Prince fans, music lovers, and students as well as casual listeners who might not be too familiar with this classic album.

HiGHER LEARNING

25 / 4: "Parade" April. by Xfm 25 on Mixcloud

Parade album info & history

PARADE

Prince (His Purple Majesty) - Parade by Prince020170

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MUSiQ sOULCHiLD

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"MusiqInTheMagiq" album, hits stores everywhere Tuesday, May 3rd!

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