• Albums

• Type: Album

• Includes: Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

Cupid and Psyche is a notable album by Scritti Politti. - AsNotedIn

In April '84, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" crackled over airwaves from Anglesey to Arizona like an alien radio transmission beamed out to an unsuspecting planet. A gleaming, chromium nugget molded by ultra-modernist studioheads, it heralded in three and a half minutes the dramatic, bravura transformation of a band called Scritti Politti. Formerly a DIY squat punk band, they were now a group doused in glinting pop sheen. ... The resultant LP, Cupid and Psyche 85, yielded a string of radio-slaying singles ("Wood Beez...", "Absolute", "The Word Girl" and "Perfect Way") that segued fluently between ultra-slick robotised funk and meticulously constructed swoonsome lovers rock. Huge sales followed. Green Gartside Interviewed On Scritti Politti and His Welsh Heritage, Robin Turner, 31 May 2011, thequietus.com

Places

• Leeds, West Yorkshire "Scritti Politti" are from Leeds, England, 1977
• Wales, United Kingdom Singer-songwriter Green Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales