There’s a great piece on the career highs and (many) lows of Muscial Youth in today’s Guardian – the Friday Review bit is always good for music – and includes a lot of interesting stuff about what happened to the members. But I loved this quote from Dennis Seaton, the lead singer who apparently got the job by being the only bloke to show up at the audition, reflecting their naivety about the music business:
“The Fun Boy Three tried to talk to us about the business,” remembers Seaton. “But we were asking them questions like, ‘Are you going out with Bananarama?'”
They truly were a novelty act, no matter what they thought was going on. I mean, I remember them being on Blue Peter regularly and thinking, what the hell is a band doing on Blue Peter? That’s not how it works! I knew there was something fishy about the music business even then….