He began his recording career in 2009 by anonymously releasing music on YouTube. The Weeknd is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer who has recorded material for five studio albums, three mixtapes and two extended plays (EP), as well as contribute to other artist's respective albums. The album's sleeve notes give a detailed history of the band and reasons for them slipping into obscurity.The Weeknd performing at Djakarta Warehouse Project in December 2018 Geoff Cooper - drums (used to perform with The Counterfeit Stones)īroken English recorded one album (called Platinum), which was not released until 2007, nearly 20 years after it was first recorded.

Paul Fenton - drums (used to perform with T.Rex).Alan Coates - guitars (used to perform with The Hollies).Jamie Moses - guitars (has performed with Queen + Paul Rodgers, Brian May, Tom Jones and Paul Young).Steve Elson - guitars, vocals (now lead singer 'Nick Dagger' of The Counterfeit Stones.At the end of the video the band appears in the style of the Take On Me video by A-ha. The video consists of a woman de icing a window allowing her to observe the band performing. The closing shot shows the band departing up hill into the sunset, where they cross paths with three others dressed in the bands Ghostbusters uniforms.ĭo You Really Want Me Back shows the band playing in a studio and is filmed in black and white.

Love on the Side Has a desert/cowboy theme with the band performing with their guitars. Due to the visible steam of their breath, the video gives the impression that the band is in the cold outdoors. This is highlighted and detailed in the sleeve notes of their only album which was released in 2007, several years after the band stopped performing.īroken English were one of the opening acts on the ITV programme The Roxy, which was set up as opposition to BBC Television's Top of the Pops.Ĭomin on Strong features a full-length music video of the band in their Ghostbusters look, playing the song in a run down work yard.

The first single did reasonably well however, the two follow-up singles did not fare so well. A friend, Oliver Smallman, heard the song and thought it was too good to be a one-off novelty song and encouraged Elson to put together a band and record more material. The group started after Elson wrote a song called 'Comin' On Strong'.

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