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Shakatak performing at Knebworth Park as part of the Capital Radio Jazz Festival, 1982. Shakatak performing at Wuppertal, Germany, 2014. Shakatak is an English jazz-funk band founded in 1980 [3] by Bill Sharpe, Nigel Wright, Roger Odell and Keith Winter.
Robb was a member of Information Society from its inception in the early 1980s until 1992 (after its third release Peace and Love, Inc.).. When Information Society's contract with Tommy Boy/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records ended, Paul (who at the time had a new infant) chose to work in films and commercials, winning two Clio Awards for BMW ads in the process.
Year Title Details Peak chart positions UK [1]US Con. Jazz [12]1982 The Best of Shakatak: Released: 1982; Label: Polydor; Formats: LP; Japan-only release — — The Greatest Shakatak
Label: Hakatak — — Hello World: Released: 23 September 2014; Label: Hakatak — — Orders of Magnitude: Released: 11 March 2016; Label: Hakatak — [A] — Oddfellows: Released: 6 August 2021; Label: Hakatak — — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Bill Sharpe – Bösendorfer grand piano, keyboards [2]; Nigel Wright – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Sennheiser Vocoder, Oberheim OB-X synthesizer, keyboards and synthesizers
"Down on the Street" is a 1984 song by British band Shakatak. The song is about the joy of nightlife.It was a hit, reaching No. 9 in the UK. [1]It was their only chart entry on the U.S. Dance Charts, with no further hits there, although their duet with Al Jarreau on "Day by Day" in 1985 was a mild success.
Night Birds, released in 1982 on the Polydor label, is the second album by English jazz-funk band Shakatak. Night Birds established Shakatak's trademark jazz-funk sound, and contains two of the band's biggest hits, "Easier Said than Done" and "Night Birds", the former reaching the No. 12 spot in 1981, the latter climbing to No. 9 in the following year.
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