Level 42

[Rochester Seagull]

Mark King is a very talented bass player.

Hit the underground jazz funk scene with the excellent 'Love Games', King at his best.

Established a huge following with early british funk contributions and massive dance hits 'Starchild' and 'Turn It On', in 1981.

Everything after went downhill with housewife friendly chart poopers, including 'Chinese Way', The Sun Goes Down', 'Lessons In Love', 'Running In The Family', 'Leave Me Now' - awful. And as for 'Tracie' well...

Saw them at Canterbury University in 1981 when they supported Duran Duran believe it or not.

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

Mark King is a very talented bass player.

Hit the underground jazz funk scene with the excellent 'Love Games', King at his best.

Established a huge following with early british funk contributions and massive dance hits 'Starchild' and 'Turn It On', in 1981.

Everything after went downhill with housewife friendly chart poopers, including 'Chinese Way', The Sun Goes Down', 'Lessons In Love', 'Running In The Family', 'Leave Me Now' - awful. And as for 'Tracie' well...

Saw them at Canterbury University in 1981 when they supported Duran Duran believe it or not.

I'm not sure whether to be more amazed that they supported Duran Duran or that Duran Duran were booked to play at Canterbury University.
All the same, talented or not, there's no excuse for "Lessons In Love" and "Sons And Daughters", although at the time I probably thought they were groovy.........

 

[NMH]

Hmm, Britain's 'Steely Dan' ?
The funkiest band since Average White Band ?
Is it interesting music when it is harder to 'get to grips' with.... does that mean it can be called 'jazz' now ?

Who cares, they made little impression with NMH .

 

[Pevenseagull]

play the bass under your shin with your tongue stuck out, wearing a pink tank top like mark king

play the bass round your knees throwing rock god poses like peter hook

which is more likely to get you a good hard shag?

 

[aftershavedave]

Ah, now we're talking - live in Talk of The South in Southend, waiting for their first album to be released, blasting 'Heathrow' at full volume on the car, class.

blimey posh, me too....they were class until they made it big

 

[alan partridge]

play the bass under your shin with your tongue stuck out, wearing a pink tank top like mark king

play the bass round your knees throwing rock god poses like peter hook

which is more likely to get you a good hard shag?

classic typo there!

my cousin's who are about 5 years older than me used to have a BROWN stripe painted around their BEIGE bedroom walls that did a zig zag at one point, like a life suport machine. next to the zig zag there was a BROWN level 42 logo. ahh the 80's

 

[coach03]

'King of wishful thinking' was a bit lame though.

That was Go West ! Who were also class as well as Level 42