The Beloved

The Beloved was a British music group. Originally founded as a psychedelic rock band, the group turned in the late 1980s under the influence of the British rave scene to the electronic music and published in the 1990s, several commercially successful singles, adapted the elements of techno.

Band History

John Marsh (vocals, guitar ), Guy Gousden (drums) and Tim Harvard ( electric bass) founded in 1983 at Cambridge University, the group Journey Through. A year later, with the studied mathematician Steve Waddington added a second guitarist and the band changed its name to The Beloved. The quartet founded under the name Flim Flam her own record label and released several singles until 1987, resulting in the UK Independent Charts were able to place, but the official UK Singles Chart not reached. With the 1987 album Where It Is The Beloved achieved a moderate success, which led to a recording contract with WEA Records. Around this time the band changed their musical direction away from psychedelic rock towards a mixture of pop music and dance along the lines of bands like New Order. Harvard and left Gousden The Beloved and the two remaining members of John Marsh and Steve Waddington put the band continued as a duo. The rhythm section both replaced by electronic means. In the singles WEA Loving Feeling (1988) and Your Love Takes Me Higher ( 1989) who could not also reach the singles charts published. Only with The Sun Rising succeeded in late 1989 with number 26 in the charts for the commercial breakthrough. The next single reached number 19 on the charts Hello and The Beloved was regarded as the successor of the Pet Shop Boys. A little later the album Happiness appeared. Then a remix of Your Love Takes Me Higher was included, which was the third single success of the band. In 1991, Steve Waddington to Hillages Project System 7 He was replaced by Marsh's wife Helena as a singer. The career peaked in 1993 with The Beloved of the top - ten single, Sweet Harmony and the album Conscience. With the following three single releases of success subsided and The Beloved withdrew for approximately three years from the public. While In 1996, the band with the album X and three singles a comeback, however, the stylistic direction of the group had changed little since 1993, and was not therefore on the amount of time. In addition, John Marsh had discovered DJing for himself and ended the career as La Amada in 1997.

Discography

  • Where It Is ( Flim Flam, HARPCD2, 1987)
  • Happiness ( Atlantic 1990)
  • Blissed Out ( EastWest 1990)
  • Conscience ( EastWest 1993)
  • X ( EastWest 1996)
  • Single File ( EastWest 1997)
  • The Sun Rising (WEA 2005)
  • A Hundred Words ( 1986)
  • This Means War (1986 )
  • Happy Now (1987 )
  • Surprise Me (1987 )
  • Loving Feeling (1988 )
  • Your Love Takes Me Higher ( 1989)
  • The Sun Rising ( 1989)
  • Hello ( 1990)
  • Your Love Takes Me Higher ( Re-release, 1990)
  • The Sun Rising ( re-release, 1990)
  • Time After Time (1990 )
  • It's Alright Now (1990 )
  • Sweet Harmony (1993 )
  • Celebrate Your Life (1993 )
  • Outer Space Girl ( 1993)
  • Rock to the Rhythm of Love ( 1993)
  • Satellite ( 1996)
  • Deliver Me (1996 )
  • Ease the Pressure ( 1996)
  • The Sun Rising (remix ) (1997 )
  • With You (2000)
  • Timeslip (2000)
Electronica Singing Electric guitar Bass guitar University of Cambridge Mathematics
768756
de