Scritti Politti
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Scritti Politti are a UK band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, England[8] by Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. He is the only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history.[6]
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Beginning as a punk-inspired collective of art students and squatters, Scritti Politti released several early post-punk recordings on the independent Rough Trade Records before transitioning into a mainstream pop music project in the early-to-mid 1980s, achieving success on the record charts in the UK. The group's most successful album, 1985's Cupid & Psyche 85, spawned three UK Top 20 hits with "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)", "Absolute", and "The Word Girl". The group scored its only US Top 20 hit with the song "Perfect Way".
The band's 1988 album Provision peaked inside the UK Top 10, though it only produced one UK Top 20 hit single, "Oh Patti". After releasing two non-album singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B.E.F., Gartside retired to South Wales for more than seven years.[9] He returned in the late 1990s, releasing Anomie & Bonhomie in 1999. In 2005, Rough Trade Records released the compilation Early, which collected the band's first releases. In 2006, Gartside released the stripped-down album White Bread, Black Beer.