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The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way [7" Single Edit]

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1986's T. Houston's remake for smash-hit "Don't Leave Me This Way" By The Communards. Better than the original?...you're choose!
Review.- Communards were a British pop duo formed in 1985 after singer Jimmy Somerville left his earlier band Bronski Beat to team up with classically-trained musician Richard Coles. Though mainly a pianist, Coles played a number of instruments and had been seen previously performing the clarinet
solos on the Bronski Beat hit "It Ain't Necessarily So." Also with Dave Renwick, bass player, who also played with Bronski Beat. Jimmy was well-known for his falsetto singing style, and the fact that he was openly gay. The band had their first UK Top 30 hit in 1985 with the piano-based single "You
Are My World." The following year they had their biggest hit with an energetic cover version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' soul classic "Don't Leave Me This Way" (in a version inspired by Thelma Houston's cover) which spent four weeks at number one and became the UK's biggest selling single o
f 1986 and also, that one song was a really success on Club/Dance charts around the world (reached number one on US Dance charts and number fourty at Hot 100 singles on early 1987). It featured Sarah Jane Morris as a co-vocalist. Later that year The Communards had another UK Top 10 hit with the sin
gle "So Cold the Night." In 1987 they released an album called Red, which featured a cover version of the Jackson 5's hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" (in a version inspired by Gloria Gaynor's cover), which the Communards took to Number 4. They split in 1988 and Somerville began a solo career. Coles fo
llowed his christian leanings and, after spells as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, is now the vicar at St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire.

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