Highest: Singles: #19 Run: 7 weeks
Highest: Hot Dance Music/Club Play: #10
| History Repeating The Propellerheads featuring Miss Shirley Bassey, Written by Alex Gifford |
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Dec 1997 Highest: Singles: #19 Run: 7 weeks |
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Dec 1997 Highest: Hot Dance Music/Club Play: #10 |
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Drum 'n' Bassey From New Music Express, Dec 1997 Take one Welsh superstar diva, add a tip-top bigbeat combo and stir. OK, so Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads are a trifle peculiar as musical... |
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Quotes By Propellerheads and Alex Gifford I hate that obsession with what's freshest, with what's 'this week'. And what better way to show that than to get a timeless icon like Shirley Bassey... |
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Reviews From Various Publications This year, a new legion of fans have discovered Bassey since she bonded with the English duo Propellerheads for their international hit... |
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Agency Press Release From Sep 1997 The glamorous Welsh star secretly slipped into a north London studio yesterday to begin work on a single with the group. A Bassey confidante.. |
| Propellerheads |
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Proponents
of the much-maligned big-beat style of dance music (i.e. the Chemical Brothers),
the Propellerheads, keyboardist/bassist/DJ Alex Gifford and drummer/DJ Will
White sprang out of Bath, England in 1996 to achieve almost overnight success in
the U.K. with their brand of unabashed party techno, which combines strains of
hip-hop, acid house, jazz-funk, and spy-film soundtracks. Gifford began his
career as a studio musician, playing keyboards for Van Morrison and saxophone
for the Stranglers, among others, before joining dance collective the Grid.
After a stint on the staff of Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, where he
helped write and produce the well-received Arcane compilation, Gifford decided
to start recording his own music, and sought out local drummer White. In 1996,
the duo released its first EP, Dive, on Wall of Sound; almost immediately, the
title track was licensed by Adidas for use in a television commercial. The
follow-up, Take California, appeared later that year, and the title track became
a significant underground big-beat success. The 1997 Spybreak! EP was another
hit, demonstrating the duo's love for spy-film soundtracks; later in the year,
the group hit the British Top Five with a remake of the Bond theme "On Her
Majesty's Secret Service," recorded for the compilation Shaken and Stirred: The
David Arnold 007 Project. Remixes for acts like Luscious Jackson, Soul Coughing,
and 808 State followed, and Propellerheads signed to DreamWorks. The band made
its U.S. debut in 1997 with a self-titled CD5, which contained the new single
"Bang On!," as well as several old and new tracks. In early 1998, the
Propellerheads released their full-length debut, Decksandrumsandrockandroll, to
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