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HOT CHOCOLATE’S (YOU SEXY THING) LEAD SINGER ERROL BROWN DIES AT 71!

ERROL Brown, whose funky numbers with Hot Chocolate such as You Sexy Thing became sensations in the disco era, has died of liver cancer aged 71. BROWN, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica (November 12, 1943) but spent most of his life in Britain where he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to popular music, died at his home in The Bahamas, said his manager Phil Dale on Wednesday. Dale called Brown “a wonderful gentleman” who was constantly writing new songs. “There was always music wherever he was,” Dale said. Brown became a pop star almost by accident after he and friend Tony Wilson, a songwriter who became co-founder of Hot Chocolate, decided in the late 1960’s to make reggae versions of hits of the day. A reggae … Read entire article »

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