The duo took an experimental leap forward into the 90s, creating a number of LPs – Truth and Love, Showtime! and Piano & Voice – that infused jazz, drum ‘n’ bass, R&B and Nuyorican Latin-funk. To the delight and surprise of the Kane brothers, the band had been a commercial success, however Hue And Cry were dropped from their label after the release of their third album Stars Crash Down.
Two massive hits followed from their second album Remote: Looking For Linda and Violently. Their debut album Seduced And Abandoned spawned their biggest hit Labour Of Love in 1987 ( read Hue And Cry wrote the song in our latest issue) after the first single I Refuse had failed to make the UK Top 75 the year before. North Lanarkshire-born siblings Greg and Pat Kane started making music together in 1983, when Pat was about to graduate from university and his brother was still at school.
Hue And Cry’s Pat Kane: “That’s one of the basics of establishing the hook of a song: to have a great opening lyrical metaphor.” We hear both sides of the story behind the emergence of the 80s blue-eyed soul pop brothers from North LanarkshireĪlong with Wet Wet Wet, Simple Minds, Del Amitri and Deacon Blue, blue-eyed soul pop duo Hue And Cry were one of the most successful acts to emerge from the Scottish music scene that stormed the charts in the 80s.
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