Miquel Brown - Close To Perfection

The late great New York DJ, Shaun Buchanan, championed this record, "Close To Perfection", and made it one of the anthems at the legendary nightclub, The Saint, in New York in the 1980s. Miquel Brown's biggest hit, "So Many Men So Little Time", was the first pioneering record of the whole High Energy scene. Made after four years where I couldn't make a single recording simply because everyone said Disco was dead. Two million sales of that record proved them all wrong. But despite it being number one pop in France and Mexico, and number one in the US on Billboard's dance chart, it never even charted in England, despite selling fifty thousand copies here. Things have certainly changed since then.Miquel came from Detroit, lived in England, had a small 1970s disco hit called "Symphony Of Love", and was the perfect artist to record my anthem. Her daughter, Sinitta, was Simon Cowell's first ever hit artist. Although "Close To Perfection", with it's lilting strings and smooth soulful laid back feel, was not as big as the two million selling "So Many Men So Little Time", this wonderful song became a "sleaze" anthem in New York, the word "sleaze" meaning slower cooler music which they played later on in the night, to cool things down after the peak of all the High Energy. And unlike its predecessor, this song was also picked up by Tony Blackburn and adored by the London Soul Fraternity

Channel: Music
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: IanLevine

Length: 03:54
Rating: 4.71
Views: 20798

Tags: Disco  Diva  Eighties  Eurobeat  High-Energy  Soul  

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