I, also, am who I am because of Wham! Part 2

Part 2 (of 4)

Part 2

Continued from Part 1

Just to start to illustrate how the connections made that day, back in 1982 in Maison Rouge Studio 1, changed my life, Steve Brown, a few years later, would produce several recordings for Jaime Petrie and I. By the end of 1983, under the careful guidance of our great manager, Sally Anne Cooper, we’d signed music publishing deals as songwriters with Clive Black at InterSong Music (now Warner Chappell Music). I remember very clearly one day Jaime and I were with Clive in his office, and he said he wanted us to listen to the finished recording of a song that had just been delivered to him by one of his writers, he said ‘this is going to be something really big’. It was ‘Your Love Is King’ by Sade. I’d never heard anything like it. I was spellbound. Then by the middle of 1985 Jaime and I had signed a major album recording contract with Siren Records (then a subsidiary of Virgin), and the label manager was none other than Mark Dean (formerly label manager of InnerVision, Wham!’s original label)!