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Kissing the Pink

One step

Kissing the Pink

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Kissing the Pink è un gruppo musicale britannico. Negli anni ottanta la formazione includeva Nicholas Whitecross (voce solista, chitarre), John Kingsley Hall (tastiere, voce), 

George Stewart (pianoforte, tastiere, voce), Josephine Wells (sassofono, voce), Peter Barnett (basso, violino, voce), Stephen Cusack (batteria, voce) e Simon Aldridge (chitarre, voce).

Nel 1986 ottennero grande successo in Italia con il singolo One Step (album Certain Things Are Likely), dove spicca la voce femminile di Scarlett Von Wollenmann, corista al seguito 

del gruppo in tournée (amata successivamente in Italia per il brano Pregherei cantato con Scialpi), che raggiunse il secondo posto nella classifica delle vendite[2] e col successivo Never Too late (To Love You).

Source: Wikipedia

Kissing the Pink are a British new wave, dance and synthpop group from London, England.[1] Members included Nick Whitecross, John Hall, George Stewart, Josephine Wells, Pete Barnett, Sylvia Griffin, Steve Cusack and Simon Aldridge.

Their first single was "Don't Hide in the Shadows", made with Martin Hannett, but it was not until they dropped their first manager (celebrated in their song "Michael"), and signed with Magnet Records that they began to get any airplay. They recorded their first album in AIR Studios with producer Colin Thurston.

Kissing the Pink had wanted Brian Eno to produce the album but Magnet thought Thurston would make a more commercial impact. After a series of near-misses, their single "The Last Film" reached the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart.[2] Their album, Naked, reached No. 54 in the UK Albums Chart.[2]

Their first Billboard Hot 100 entry was "Maybe This Day", which hit No. 87 in 1983. In 1985, following the departure by some of the members, they shortened their name to KTP and began having hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The most successful was 

"Certain Things Are Likely", which spent three weeks at No. 1 in 1987.[1] That song also became their second Hot 100 entry when it peaked at No. 97 later that year. From the same album, "One Step" was the biggest selling single in Italy that year.

Kissing the Pink's last album, Sugarland, was a blend of psychedelia and dance-pop. Since then, the band have made an album with Ecologist called Hot Filth which took the mixing of psychedelia with jazz and other musical forms further still.

Whitecross, Hall and Stewart collaborated on many dance records in the early 1990s,[1] and made it to the top of the dance charts in 1994 with the artist Mike ("Twangling (Three Fingers in a Box)" on Pukka Records). They made an album in 2003 with jazz saxophonist 

Candy Dulfer called Right In My Soul. They also worked with Gareth Gates on his Pictures of the Other Side album. Whitecross has written a considerable amount of material for pop 

artists such as Shea Seger. The band wrote and feature on four tracks on the X-Press 2 album Makeshift Feelgood, alongside Tim DeLaughter, Kurt Wagner and Rob Harvey from The Music.