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Their main songwriter was Eddy Grant, with contributions from the Gordon brothers, Pat Lloyd and John Hall. Though the majority were on traditional teenage pop themes, some, such as “Stand Up and Be Counted”, “Police on My Back”, and the funky “Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys”, touched on social and political issues. [6]
"Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys" is a song written by Guyanese-British musician Eddy Grant and recorded in London in 1970 by his band the Equals. Their recording, produced by Grant, reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1971 and was the band's last chart hit. [3] The Equals were noted for being one of the first ethnically mixed bands ...
Rather, blue eyes result from structural color in combination with certain concentrations of non-blue pigments. The iris pigment epithelium is brownish black due to the presence of melanin. [54] Unlike brown eyes, blue eyes have low concentrations of melanin in the stroma of the iris, which lies in front of the dark epithelium.
Michael Johnson began a boy band with friend Patrick King, alongside Marc Terenzi and Ben Bledsoe. After many lineup changes, the band added Michael "J" Horn and settled on the name Natural. The boys tried to get signed with many major labels, but were turned down despite a local success in Orlando, FL.
Through producer Lou Reizner, Ryan began getting work as an arranger, and wrote the string arrangements on Caetano Veloso's third self-titled album called either his 1971 album or A Little More Blue. The Eyes of Blue's third and final album, Bluebell Wood, was released under the pseudonym Big Sleep, and the band broke up shortly afterwards.
The Blacks grab the audience's attention just by walking onstage -- part hillbilly punk band, part cabaret troupe from Berlin's red-light district. With her false eyelashes, form-fitting party dress and pair of nymphs painted on the body of her upright bass, the statuesque Gina Black alone would be enough to stop traffic on Lake Shore Drive."
Black 'N Blue is an American glam metal band from Portland, Oregon. [2] The current members are lead vocalist Jaime St. James, bassist Patrick Young, drummer Pete Holmes, and guitarists Brandon Cook and Mick Caldwell. The band is best known for their song "Hold On to 18" from their eponymous debut studio album, Black 'n Blue, released in August ...
Blue-eyed soul (also called white soul [1]) is rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul music performed by White artists. [2] The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists whose sound was similar to that of the predominantly black Motown and Stax record labels.