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The Commotions, Cole told Ross, started off trying to make music in the same vein as Scritti Politti or the Style Council. “I was just no good at it,” Cole admitted. “I definitely was trying to be a male Aretha Franklin.” The mind boggles. It was only when the band wrote Are You Ready to be Heartbroken in a day in the studio and realised it was much better than the song they had been working on for ages that they started to get a glimpse of what their first album, Rattlesnakes, could be. Throw in Anne Dudley’s gorgeous string arrangements and you have one of the albums of the ...

Saxophonist’s career tested chaos theory We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Jim Bright Save Normal text size Advertisement “If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is,” writes Ilona Andrews in her novel Magic Binds. The novel is sometimes described as being urban fantasy. The recently published autobiography by Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson could also be described as an urban fantasy as it amusingly documents a...