Brooklyn were a five piece group of real musicians, fronted by Ben Davis, son of my original mentor Martin Davis, who, at United Artists in 1977, gave me my first job in the music business, as head of disco promotions for the label. (His son Ben was three at the time). But it was sheer coincidence that I discovered his son eighteen years later. This Brooklyn record is also quite historic. It was the very very first project that I did with my cousin, Daniel Glatman, even prior to Impact (there's a video of that group, Impact, on my own main page), before Daniel went on to create Blue, and become one of the most successful managers in the UK music business. He'd first tried to do this group called Brooklyn, and Ben Davis had been his school friend, and Daniel introduced me to Ben, singing this very song he'd written, at the piano at his parents house one Friday night in 1995. I was hooked and put this group together, including another cousin of mine and Daniel's, Steven Jacobson, on the drums. Steven had been in a group with Lisa Scott Lee before she left that group to join Steps. Anyway to cut a long story short, we made seven songs with Brooklyn, and in the end, Ben's father, Martin Davis, didn't want Ben to sign exclusively, and the whole project fizzled apart without a release. But we did make this video, which has been a bit of a long standing joke with my friends, who all thought it was way too over the top. Well in retrospect, it may be slightly tasteless in places, but I quite like it - SO THERE !!!!!!!
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