![]() They finally made their breakthrough in 1975 with ‘Sky High’. ![]() Further releases failed to get them a chart hit, although ‘Who Do You Think You Are’, a song written by band members Clive Scott and Des Dyer and recorded by Candlewick Green, would get to 21 on the UK charts. They released their first album (‘Letherslade Farm’) in 1970 but saw no chart success with this. Jigsaw’s first breakthrough came when they were offered the job of backing band for soul singer Arthur Conley when he toured the UK. ![]() Bitnell would leave the band before they had their SA chart hit mentioned below. They had all worked in different bands previously with Barrie Bernard coming from Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours and Tony Britnell had been in The Fortunes. They started out as a six piece and took their name from a Manchester Club called ‘The Jigsaw Club’. 98 ‘The Changingman’ By the time the Modfather released his third solo album ‘Stanley Road’, he’d firmly found his feet as a solo artist and was flourishing even without The Jam or Style Council.The members of Jigsaw came from Coventry and the nearby town of Rugby. They were still bringing baggy beats and grooves and remained adored by many – ‘Reverend Black Grape’, their first single, shifted more copies than ‘Step On’ – but weren’t immune to the odd spot of controversy, either: the track drew parallels between the Pope, the Catholic church and Nazism. ![]() ![]() 99 ‘Reverend Black Grape’ Shaun Ryder and Bez rode off together into the sunset following the implosion of the Mondays. As he twisted Stevie Wonder’s ‘Pastime Paradise’ into a dark tale of the pitfalls of gangster life. Eschewing any of the violent tropes of hip-hop, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ was gospel-tinged and religion-indebted rap, with Coolio joined by tubby warbler L.V. 100 ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Nowadays, Coolio whiles away the time ‘starring’ in US reality cooking shows, but for the briefest of periods in 1995 he was the epitome of cool. ![]()
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