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1987's biggest worldwide hit "Lessons In Love" by Level 42. this is my own video remix enjoyed from the original 12" Shep Pettibone Remix, the Disconet Remix, but specially played with the "Dub version" as principal beat-sample in this mix...hope you'll really like it...:) Review.- Level 42 is a popular British pop and funk band. The group had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high calibre musicianship, especially that of Mark King, whose percussive slap bass guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits. Level 42 was formed in 1980 as a jazz-funk fusion band. The Gould brothers, drummer Phil and guitarist Boon, together with then drummer Mark King all came from the Isle of Wight and had played together in various bands during their teenage years. In late 1979 Phil introduced King to keyboard player Mike Lindup, who Phil had met while studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lindup was studying piano but had taken a course in percussion and he and Phil found that they shared musical heroes - Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett and Jan Hammer. In 1981 they released "Love Games", a top 40 hit. They then cut their critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album. This became an immediate success throughout Europe. The following year, a second album The Pursuit of Accidents was made, and singles from the album, first "Weave Your Spell" and then "The Chinese Way" were released, both charting, the latter in particular rising high in the charts and gaining the band a much wider audience than hitherto. Their album went on to become a huge seller. In between, Polydor released The Early Tapes, recorded in the early days of the band when they were signed to the Elite label. A fourth album Standing in the Light generated their first top ten hit in the UK in 1983, "The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)". Recorded with members of Earth, Wind and Fire, this album debuted a new era for the band, less experimental and jazzy than previous releases. There were no instrumental tracks on this album whatsoever, nor on any of their following albums until Staring at the Sun in 1988. The quartet followed that with the album True Colours in 1984, which veered between funk, power pop, midtempo rock and moody ballads. It yielded the singles "The Chant Has Begun" and "Hot Water" (a top 20 hit in Britain, and a top 5 hit in the Netherlands where the band became very popular, the song reached also #7 in Belgium). That same year, Mark King pursued a solo project Influences. By this time, Level 42 had also gained acclaim for its power as a live band (as showcased on the A Physical Presence album). The next studio album, World Machine, was successfully released in 1985. Singles from this LP, "Something About You" and "Leaving Me Now" were UK top twenty hits (top forty hits in Holland). More importantly, "Something About You" was also their first (and only) US top ten the following year; reaching too the Top 5 in Canada and the Top 20 in Italy . "Leaving Me Now" is the second prominence of this album, have peaked in #15 in the United Kingdom, but didn't obtain a lot of success out of Europe. During the recording of World Machine, the first major tensions between Phil Gould and Mark King began to surface over musical direction, production and also in their personal relationship. This led to Phil leaving the band for a week and was nearly replaced by Allan Holdsworth's drummer Gary Husband (some three Years prior to Husband actually joining Level 42), however Gould and King's dispute was resolved and the group enjoyed their most successful year to date. Next came "Lessons in Love" in early 1986 - a song taken from Running in the Family to be released in 1987 - which was a very big international hit and gave to Level 42 its first number one, in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and South Africa, increasing considerably its popularity (#2 in Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, #3 in the UK and in Ireland, #4 in Austria, #10 in Norway, #12 in the US in 1987 and #22 in France). By this time, the band was heading further away from its original jazz-funk sound and towards a much more mainstream pop sound. Elements of Level 42's roots can still be found in the funky "Coup d'Etat" and "Dream Crazy" on the UK version of the album, as well as a long instrumental track named "Hell", which was also recorded during the World Machine sessions. After originally disbanding in 1994, they reformed in 2001. Level 42 have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

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Uploaded: June 5th, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
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