(CBS 11) - The 80s were full of great dance songs and the song "Perfect Way" by dance/pop trio Scritti Politti will definitely not disappoint the dance song audience! Formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, ...
Green Gartside has had one of the weirdest careers of any pop star, ever. Scritti Politti began as a gang of communist punks living in a London squat -- their early recordings are intentionally ...
Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have ...
Green Gartside is the driving force behind the various incarnations of his band Scritti Politti, which has been making music on and off for 35 years. Driven by Gartside's childlike voice and uplifting ...
(average) Scritti Politti, Cupid & Psyche 85 (Warner Bros. 25302-1): Scritti Politti (Italian for political writings) is a loosely based group led by a Briton named simply Green. He possesses ...
For "One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs," veteran music writer Maura Johnston recommends "The Sweetest Girl" by the band Scritti Politti. They're... Scritti Politti And The Punk/Pop Inflection Point ...
Green Gartside and Scritti Politii were a post-punk success in the 1980s. Born in Cardiff in 1956, Gartside attended Leeds Polytechnic and experienced The Sex Pistols' Anarchy tour in 1977. Like so ...
Formed in 1978 in Leeds, Scritti were initially a left-wing-inspired post-punk group that later developed into a mainstream pop music project in the early to mid-1980s, and enjoyed significant success ...