I was on 6music radio earlier today on their "The Chain" segment, in which listeners pick a song which links to the previous one on The Chain. It started quite a while ago and a website shows the complete history of choices.
The previous song was Running in the Family by Level 42, and I chose Sade's Your Love is King. Mark King is the frontman of Level 42 and so King makes the link between the two songs.
When Sade's Diamond Life album came out in 1984 it was a big thing. Your Love is King was one of the big hit singles from it and I was well aware of it, as I was of all chart music when I was around that age. But I was 10 years old, and Sade's sophistpop songs about adult life didn't speak to me. My parents, then in their 30s, were fans and I ended up hearing the album over the years, initially inducing groans as I wanted to listen to the specific music I was into at each age as I got older.
Now I am a great fan of the album. The whole thing is great, and I find myself listening to it from time to time, enjoying the non-single tracks perhaps more than the big hits, as befits a listener of 6music. It is the radio station that the mother of my kids says is "for people who like music too much"
Here's the link to my song in The Chain's database and below is a video of the track
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