Black Lace is tagged as: pop, funny, oldies, british, comedy Black Lace are a British pop group noted for their deliberately light weight hits such as “The Music Man”, “Agadoo” and “Superman”. They also represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 in Jerusalem, with the song “Mary Ann”, which finished seventh. The group, whose biggest hits were obtained as a duo, started out as a four-piece group. The hit-making duo comprised of Colin Routh (born 8 September 1953) and Alan Barton (born 16 September 1953; died 23 March 1995). Amongst the songs by other artists that Black Lace recorded were The Sweet’s “Wig Wam Bam”, The Village People’s “YMCA” and Los Del Rio’s “Macarena”. Some of their more original works, were “Music Man”, , and “Superman”. “Agadoo”, one of their biggest hits, is often thought to be an original, but is in fact a translated cover version of a French song, “Agadou”, a European hit in 1975. Agadoo has just been recorded again by Dene Michael,one of the original members from 1986,Agadoo Mambo 2009. A few of the duo’s songs (e.g. “Gang Bang” - not the song by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) are somewhat risqué, but the overall feeling is ... Read More About Black Lace Biography... Send Black Lace ringtones to your cell |
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