Sade - Diamond Life
Trevor Nelson goes track-by-track through this globally successful debut album by a British group, recalling the era through archive material and interviews and personal memories.
Of the four albums selected as the Class Of '84, only Diamond Life by Sade was a debut album. It's also the only British album of the four, but it appealed far beyond the UK, achieving success across Europe and then in America. Trevor Nelson takes us through the album track-by-track and shares his memories.
In 1984, there was no shortage of depressing and worrying domestic and international stories making headlines, but Diamond Life felt like an escape from them, even though one of its songs struck a chord with the rising unemployment that Trevor remembers well amongst his friends and community.
Archive recordings of Sade being interviewed on Radio 1 provide context of the media鈥檚 questions about the group and their album in 1984, while producer Robin Millar describes his highly unusual method for recording Sade鈥檚 vocals.
Being long before the internet and music-streaming, there are reminders of a magazine and the must-have audio equipment of the era鈥� The Face was a hugely influential monthly publication, which the group's music and the look and style of singer/songwriter Sade Adu was perfect for it. And as you鈥檇 expect from music-obsessed Trevor, he wouldn鈥檛 go anywhere without his Walkman, and he reminds us how the cassette-buying public found their copy of Diamond Life had two bonus tracks that weren鈥檛 included on the LP or new-fangled compact disc releases.
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Sade
Your Love Is King
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Sade
Smooth Operator
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Sade
Cherry Pie
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Sade
Frankie's First Affair
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Gil Scott鈥怘eron
Lady Day And John Coltrane
- Global Television.
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Sade
Sally
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Sade
When Am I Going To Make A Living
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes (Hibakusha)
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Visage
Fade To Grey
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Sade
I Will Be Your Friend
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Sade
Snake Bite
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Sade
Love Affair With Life
- Diamond Life.
- Epic.
- 10.
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Sade
Why Can't We Live Together
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Prince & The Revolution
Purple Rain
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Wham!
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
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Culture Club
Church Of The Poison Mind
- More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
- Disky.
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Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
- Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
- Telstar.
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The Police
Every Breath You Take
- The Ivor Novello Winners.
- EMI.
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Bananarama
Cruel Summer
- Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
- EMI.
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Sade
Hang On To Your Love
- Diamond Life.
- Epic.
- 3.
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Jun 2024 00:30大象传媒 Radio 2
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