Saturday 1 April 2023

Blockster

Blockster was a dance project created by Brandon Block and both members of the production team, M&S, Ricky Morrison and Fran Sidoli. The project is best known for reworking and heavily sampling the Bee Gees' "You should be dancin'"

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1999    3	You should be...
Jun 1999   18	Grooveline

What happened next?
Brandon Block continued to be a successful DJ and remixer in noughties. M+S went on to score a UK Dance #1 hit with "Salsoul Nugget (If u wanna)" (reached UK#6) in 2000.

Bizz Nizz

Bizz Nizz was a Belgian dance act formed in 1989 by Jean-Paul de Coster of Antwerp. The project was best known for the European hit, "Don't miss the Party Line" which made the Top 10 in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria. Subsequent singles failed to chart.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1990    7	Don't Miss The Partyline

What happened next?
Bizz Nizz's last effort was with George Arrendell on "Get up and boogie" in 1998.

Beverley Knight

Beverley Knight is an English born (Mar 22) soul singer from Wolverhampton. Her first single to hit the UK Top 40, "Flavour of the Old School" was a triumph for persistence as it reached only #50 on first release six months earlier. She started to get more recognition towards the end of the 90s, with a remix of "Made it back", which sampled Chic's "Good Times" and "Greatest Day" cracking the UK Top 20.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Oct 1995   33	Flavour Of The Old School
May 1998   21	Made It Back (featuring Redman)
Aug 1998   40	Rewind (Find A Way)
Apr 1999   19	Made It Back 99 (featuring Redman)
Jul 1999   14	Greatest Day
Dec 1999   31	Sista Sista

What happened next?
Beverley Knight went on to have 8 more UK Top 40 hits between 2001 and 2006 with "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" (UK#10, 2002) and "Come as you are" (UK#9, 2004) breaking into the Top 10.
Beverley has taken more to theatre, notably playing the lead, Rachel Marron in the Bodyguard musical and recently/currently in the lead in the Drifters Girl. Beverley has been a judge on the singing show, "Starstruck"

BG Prince of Rap

Bernard Greene is an American rapper, who is best known for the US Dance #1 hit "This beat is hot" in 1991. Having been based in Germany after joining the US Army, he launched his career there with major Eurodance influences. "This beat is hot" reached #1 on the US Dance chart and the follow up "Take control of the party" made #2 in 1991. "The color of my dreams" was his biggest hit in Germany (#13) and also reached #1 on Canada Dance Chart in 1994.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date  Ger  USD	Song
1991   21   1	This Beat Is Hot
1991   36   -	Give Me the Music
1991   49   2	Take Control of the Party
1992   49  32	The Power of Rhythm
1993   34   -	Can We Get Enough?
1994   13   -	The Colour of My Dreams
1994   37   -	Rock a Bit
1995   45   -	Can't Love You
1996   53   -	Stomp!

What happened next?
BG still fairly active with his last release being "Sugar" with Chrizz Morisson and Timi Kullai.

Bassheads

Bassheads was a British house duo from Wirral and consisted of Nick Murphy and Eamonn Anthony Deery (Desa). The group had a big European hit with "Is There Anybody Out There?" Subsequent singles "Back To The Old School" (UK chart position, Number 12) and "Who Can Make You Feel Good" (UK chart position, Number 38) followed in the same style of their pulsating house/sample work. They also remixed tracks for Oceanic, Björk and Visage.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1991    5	Is There Anybody Out There	
May 1992   12	Back To The Old School	
Nov 1992   38	Who Can Make Me Feel Good	
Jul 1995   24	Is There Anybody Out There (remix)

What happened next?
Nick Murphy contiues to produce and perform music. He has released recordings under the alias of "Angel" and more recently been involved in film score/ambient work.
Desa Bassheads went on to record a duet for EMI records with Garry Christian (The Christians) an up-dated version of the George Harrison classic "My Sweet Lord" in February 2008.

Barbara Tucker

Barbara Tucker is an American soul, dance and house music singer. She is best known for the 90s dance hits, "Beautiful People", "I Get Lifted", "Stay Together" and "Everybody dance". All reached #1 on US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
Hailing from New York, Tucker found her voice from her love for singing in Church. Along with prolific dance music career, she has backing vocal credits ranging from George Clinton to Deee-Lite. Tucker also acts and choreographes notably with C&C Music Factory, Soul System, Jay Williams and Deee-Lite.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1994   23	Beautiful People
Nov 1994   33	I Get Lifted
Aug 1998   28	Everybody Dance (The Horn Song)

What happened next?
Barbara Tucker has since added 4 more US dance chart #1s to her collection. At time of writing, she has 8. "Stop playing with my mind" in 2000 (also reached #17 on the UK chart) was her fifth dance chart #1. She teamed up with Blaze on "Most precious love" in 2005. The Freemasons remix reached #17 on the UK chart, a year later. "Love Vibrations" (2007) and a cover of Lyn Collins' "Think (about it)" (2018) complete her collection of US Dance #1s. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 63rd most successful dance artist of all-time (arguably should be higher now). Tucker is the only recording artist to have had a yearly residency in Ibiza.

Bamboo

Bamboo is an English disco house project created by Andrew "Doc" Livingstone (member of Hed Boys) and Erin Lordan. They are best known for the 1998 dance hit, "Bamboogie", which heavily sampled KC and the sunshine band's "Get down tonight".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1998    2	Bamboogie
Jul 1998   36	The strutt