Shirehorses

Compare with Weird Al Yankovic. (incomplete). The Shirehorses have released two albums to date:. Starr died of a heart attack at the age of 61 in his home near Nottingham. Formerly a double act on BBC Radio 1, in March of 2004 they went their separate ways, Radcliffe to BBC Radio 2, Riley to BBC 6 Music. Starr resurfaced briefly in 2002 to record a song with the British musician Jools Holland, singing "Snowflake Boogie" on Holland's compact disc More Friends. Marc Riley was formerly a member of The Fall and later Creepers before embarking on his current career as a radio personality with Mark Radcliffe. In 1979 Starr reappeared on the charts with a pair of disco hits, titled "(Eye-To-Eye) Contact" and "Happy Radio".

However, they have played large venues, supporting Blur on their 1997 tour of the UK, which took in several stadia, and even played Glastonbury in 1998. Starr continued to record music into the 1970s, most notably recording the song "Hell Up In Harlem" for the 1974 movie, Hell Up In Harlem, which was the sequel to Black Caesar, a earlier hit with a soundtrack by James Brown. The band has toured extensively, playing many university gigs because of their popularity with students. He moved to England in 1973. When they rewrote the Seahorses' Love is the Law as (Now) I know (where I'm going) our kid they chose the stage-name "Shirehorses", which then stuck. (Incidentally, that album - War and Peace - featured another song of very similar construction titled "Stop the War Now", which was a minor hit in its own right.). As part of their radio show, they have produced pastiches of recent chart songs, such as Lardy Boy for Placebo's Nancy Boy, and Why Is It Always Dairylea for Travis's Why Does It Always Rain On Me, using the band names "Gazebo" and "Travisty" respectively. The #1 hit became an anthem for the antiwar movement, and is now commonly found in such diverse places as movie soundtracks and samples in hip hop music.

The Shirehorses are a spoof band made up of two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley (known collectively as Mark and Lard). The biggest hit of his career, and the one which cemented his reputation as one of the great soul artists, was the anti-Vietnam War protest song "War (What Is It Good For)" (1970). Our Kid Eh, a play on the name of Radiohead's album, 'Kid A'. He recorded more soul music for the next three years before having an international chart-topper in "25 Miles" (1968), one of only two of his songs still heard today on oldies radio. Worst album in the world ever.....EVER!, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best (genre) Album in the world ever!. The song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a take-off on the James Bond films which were popular at the time. He lived in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s and recorded at first for the small label Ric-Tic, and later for the famed Motown after it absorbed Ric-Tic.

In 1957 he formed the group The Future Tones. He was born with the name Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee. Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 - April 2, 2003) was a soul music singer. "Snowflake Boogie" (w/Jules Holland) (2002).

"Get Up" (1980). "Happy Radio" (1979). "Contact" (1979). "Hell Up In Harlem" (1974).

"Easin' In (American Pimp Soundtrack) (1974). "Big Papa" (1974). "There You Go" (1973). "My Sweet Lord" (1971).

"Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" (1971). "War" (1970). "Time" (1970). "Stop the War Now" (1970).

"I Just Wanna Do My Thing" (1970). "I'm Still a Struggling Man" (1969). "25 Miles" (1968). "Grits Ain't Grocery" (1968).

"I Want My Baby Back" (1967). "Oh How Happy" (1966). "Headline News" (1966). "Back Street" (1966).

"Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965).