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[anthonywilson]

Fairnie

I met Fairnie somewhere round the back of Richard Nicholson (or was it Rupert Loydell?) sometime in the very early 90’s. Everyone I knew, even his wife Bev, called him Fairnie, his surname, never by his first name Steve. By the time I met him he was into his second, ‘quieter’ career as a teacher of art at a local college. I knew nothing of his first, except that he had been in twenty-six bands…

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1982 IN BRIT RAP: "QUEEN OF THE RAPPING SCENE" BY MODERN ROMANCE FT. BEV SAGE

This isn't the least dodgy thing to ever happen to rap, but it was among the earliest British rap hits -- Dizzy Heights' "Christmas Rapping" charted in 1982 (the Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping" was also a hit in '82), "Buffalo Gals" came out that year, Wham and the Antmuzik Krew tried some stuff -- and it was femme accordion rap two decades before Yolanda Pérez. Strike a blow for women's rights!