The duo took an experimental leap forward into the 90s, creating a number of LPs – Truth and Love, Showtime! and Piano & Voice – that infused jazz, drum ‘n’ bass, R&B and Nuyorican Latin-funk. To the delight and surprise of the Kane brothers, the band had been a commercial success, however Hue And Cry were dropped from their label after the release of their third album Stars Crash Down. Two massive hits followed from their second album Remote: Looking For Linda and Violently. Their debut album Seduced And Abandoned spawned their biggest hit Labour Of Love in 1987 ( read Hue And Cry wrote the song in our latest issue) after the first single I Refuse had failed to make the UK Top 75 the year before. North Lanarkshire-born siblings Greg and Pat Kane started making music together in 1983, when Pat was about to graduate from university and his brother was still at school. ![]() ![]() Hue And Cry’s Pat Kane: “That’s one of the basics of establishing the hook of a song: to have a great opening lyrical metaphor.” We hear both sides of the story behind the emergence of the 80s blue-eyed soul pop brothers from North LanarkshireĪlong with Wet Wet Wet, Simple Minds, Del Amitri and Deacon Blue, blue-eyed soul pop duo Hue And Cry were one of the most successful acts to emerge from the Scottish music scene that stormed the charts in the 80s.
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