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Artist Biography For Beats International
Beats International Was An Electronic Music Band Formed In The Late 1980s By Norman Cook After His Departure From The Housemartins. A Loose Confederation Of Musicians The Line-Up Also Included Vocalists Lindy Layton And Lester Noel Rapper MC Wildski And Keyboardist Andy Boucher. Unusually The Band's Live Line-Up Also Incorporated A Graffiti Artist Who Would Paint Designs On A Backdrop While The Musicians Played. Their First Album Let Them Eat Bingo Spawned The Number One UK Single Dub Be Good To Me A Re-Working Of The S.O.S. Band's Hit "Just Be Good To Me" Based Around A Sample Of The Bassline From The Clash's "Guns Of Brixton" And Featuring Layton On Vocals. The Second Beats International Album Was 1991's Excursion On The Version Which Featured A Greater Use Of Dub And Reggae Sounds But Failed To Repeat The Success Of Its Predecessor. This Was The Last Beats International Recording With Cook Next Going On To Form Freakpower.
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This Is A Combination Of 2 Songs "Guns Of Brixton" By The Clash And "Just Be Good To Me" By The S.O.S. Band. In 1990 Vocalist Lindy Laytons Came Up With The Idea To Do A Cover Of SOS's Band's 1984 Hit "Just Be Good To Me." She Knew It Would Go Well With Other Beats Because She'd Tried It As A DJ. She Used The Bassline From The Clash Song "Guns Of Brixton " Which Was Her Tipping Off Her Hat To The Clash As She Was Such A Big Fan. She Also Wanted To Do Something Slower Than House Music Yet Something Funky You Could Get Into To. The Spoken Rap "Tank Fly Boss Walk Jam Nitty Gritty You're Listening To The Boy From The Big Bad City This Is Jam Hot" Is Sampled From Double Trouble's "Stoop Rap " Which Was Used On The 1982 Wild Style Soundtrack The First Ever Hip-Hop Movie.
The Harmonica Part Is Sampled From Ennio Morricone's Once Upon A Time In West Harmonica Theme. The Man Behind The Music Is None Other Than Fat Boy Slim Norman Cook
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Beats International Was An Electronic Music Band Formed In The Late 1980s By Norman Cook After His Departure From The Housemartins. A Loose Confederation Of Musicians The Line-Up Also Included Vocalists Lindy Layton And Lester Noel Rapper MC Wildski And Keyboardist Andy Boucher. Unusually The Band's Live Line-Up Also Incorporated A Graffiti Artist Who Would Paint Designs On A Backdrop While The Musicians Played. Their First Album Let Them Eat Bingo Spawned The Number One UK Single Dub Be Good To Me A Re-Working Of The S.O.S. Band's Hit "Just Be Good To Me" Based Around A Sample Of The Bassline From The Clash's "Guns Of Brixton" And Featuring Layton On Vocals. The Second Beats International Album Was 1991's Excursion On The Version Which Featured A Greater Use Of Dub And Reggae Sounds But Failed To Repeat The Success Of Its Predecessor. This Was The Last Beats International Recording With Cook Next Going On To Form Freakpower.
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This is a combination of 2 songs: "Guns Of Brixton" by The Clash and "Just Be Good To Me" by The S.O.S. Band.
In 1990 vocalist Lindy Laytons came up with the idea to do a cover of SOS's band's 1984 hit "Just Be Good To Me." She knew it would go well with other beats because she'd tried it as a DJ. She used the bassline from The Clash song "Guns Of Brixton," which was her tipping off her hat to The Clash as she was such a big fan. She also wanted to do something slower than house music, yet something funky you could get into to.
The spoken rap, "Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot" is sampled from Double Trouble's "Stoop Rap," which was used on the 1982 Wild Style soundtrack, the first ever Hip-Hop movie.
The harmonica part is sampled from Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time In West Harmonica theme.
The man behind the music is none other than Fat Boy Slim, Norman Cook Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.