KING - Love & Pride!

[GUNTER]

Saw Paul King singing Love and Pride on one of the music channels this week - an eighties classic, although a crap video with graffiti artists dressed in weird clothes in a chalk pit (pretending they were on the moon). Song is a classic though. Here's some more info for KING fans (although how can this eighties haircut icon be the boring square grey-haired bloke who presents the chart years on VH1)?

Chart from February 1985

UK (US) Title Artist
1 I know him so well Elaine Page & Barbara Dickson
2 Love & pride King
3 Solid Ashford & Simpson
4 I want to know what love is Foreigner
5 1999/Little red Corvette Prince & the Revolution
6 Dancing in the dark Bruce Springsteen
7 Atmosphere Russ Abbot
8 Close(to the edit) Art Of Noise
9 Shout Tears for fears
10 A new England Kirsty MacColl
11 Run to you Bryan Adams
12 Things can only get better Howard Jones
13 Since yesterday Strawberry Switchblade
14 Sussudio Phil Collins
15 Loverboy Billy Ocean
16 Thinking of you Colour Field
17 You spin me round (Like a record) Dead Or Alive
18 Nightshift Commodores
19 Like a virgin Madonna
20 Yah mo B there James Ingram & Michael McDonald


love and pride lyrics by king


That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride.
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride.

Start your journey early or maybe later
get your boots on

Look for rainbows
it's cloudy

Take your hairdryer
blow them all away.

In you I've found a story I want to keep hearing.
In you I see all colours
not just black or white.
In you I find a reason and hope for all dreamers

You are my fill
you're my supply of love and pride.
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. . . .

Knowing
sensing
seeing
eating
sleeping
that's just being.
Touching
testing
loving
wanting and taking

more love and more pride.
In you I've found a story I want to keep hearing. . . .

I'm taking it round the world - some love and pride.
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. . . .
That's what my heart yeanis for now - love and pride. . . .

 

[Soton Seagull]

No17 was an 80s classic as well. Class.

 

[REDLAND]

A new England Kirsty MacColl used to love that tune

 

[tinx]

Atmosphere by Russ Abbot

"I love a party with a happy atmosphere"

 

[albiongirl]

What a top 20 brings back good memories!!

 

[Man of Harveys]

Terminally naff though they are/were, I've always liked Foreigner. No-one did power ballads better.

There, I've said it.

 

[Kugull]

Gunter - Paul King's my wife's boss now. Nice bloke although he does pluck his eye brows...

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

old people!! i wasnt even born then

 

[Italiaseagull]

No 17 on that list is a quality tune!

 

[Willow]

Terminally naff though they are/were, I've always liked Foreigner. No-one did power ballads better.

There, I've said it.

GUFFAW!!!

 

[Willow]

I've got a lot of those tracks on "HITS 2".

Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade is a bonafide classic just waiting to be rediscovered.

btw, can anyone explain Yah Mo B There (Up And Over) to me?

 

[PaoloRossiJohnson]

Wasn't there a Top 40 one week that had King, Queen, Prince AND Princess in it?


Or is that some kind of 80s myth...?

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I've got a lot of those tracks on "HITS 2".

Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade is a bonafide classic just waiting to be rediscovered.

btw, can anyone explain Yah Mo B There (Up And Over) to me?

It was the Doobie Brothers singer. Classic 80's blue-eyed soul.

My personal favourite was Terry Hall and his mates at 16.

 

[Man of Harveys]

btw, can anyone explain Yah Mo B There (Up And Over) to me?

I could, it's vaguely spiritual/religious I think - Michael McDonald learned his craft as a gospel singer, somewhat unusually for a bearded white bloke.

But what would be the point in explaining it for the benefit of someone who can't even appreciate I Wanna Know What Love Is. *sighs*

 

[Hiney]

No17 was an 80s classic as well. Class.

Pete Burns however, doesn't look quite as good these days!!

 

[Tooting Gull]

Terminally naff though they are/were, I've always liked Foreigner. No-one did power ballads better.

There, I've said it.

Well, if its catharsis time, while I can't stand virtually everything Bryan Adams has done, that song in the list is OK. And the one he did with Sporty. But that really is it.

 

[Simster]

that madonna number was alright. the video for like a vigin was top notch - she looked like she'd spitroast you and a mate of your choice for a fiver.

how she has gone from that to glamerous pop diva i just don't know. where did it all go so wrong?

 

[Rambo]

Pete Burns however, doesn't look quite as good these days!!

Isnt he a woman these days?

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I could, it's vaguely spiritual/religious I think - Michael McDonald learned his craft as a gospel singer, somewhat unusually for a bearded white bloke.

But what would be the point in explaining it for the benefit of someone who can't even appreciate I Wanna Know What Love Is. *sighs*

I think you're right. I think Yah means God ie short for Yahweh or Jah in Reggae. Here endeth the lesson.

He had a great voice unlike the AOR hell that is Foreigner. Am I right in thinking that they were Englsih but made in the States, hence the name? So many AOR bands from hell at that time, Styx, Chicago etc, but my personal fav was REO Speedwagon. What a name!

 

[chez]

That stawberry Switchblade song was class, im sure they could re-release that as a dance track.

BTW, I heard in a pub the other day that Someone from Brighton has done a dance version of "Cry Little Sister" from the "Lost Boys" that should be a class.