Black lace biography

British appear band

Musical artist

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1. Black Lace are a British pop group noted for their deliberately light weight hits such as "The Music Man", "Agadoo" and "Superman". They also represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, with the song "Mary Ann", which finished seventh.

The group, whose biggest hits were obtained as a duo, started out as a four-piece group. The hit-making duo comprised of Colin Routh (born 8 September ) and Alan Barton (born 16 September ; died 23 March ).

Amongst the songs by other artists that Black Lace recorded were The Sweet's "Wig Wam Bam", The Village People's "YMCA" and Los Del Rio's "Macarena". Some of their more original works, were "Music Man", , and "Superman". "Agadoo", one of their biggest hits, is often thought to be an original, but is in fact a translated cover version of a French song, "Agadou", a European hit in Agadoo has just been recorded again by Dene Michael,one of the original members from ,Agadoo Mambo

A few of the duo's songs (e.g. "Gang Bang" - not the song by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) are somewhat risqué, but the overall feeling is "seaside postcard" (a la Benny Hill) rather than obsc

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Black Lace are a British pop band, best known for novelty party records, including their biggest hit, "Agadoo". The band first came to the public eye after being selected to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, in which they finished seventh with the song "Mary Ann". The band had numerous line-up changes, with Colin Gibb being the longest serving original member, until retiring and dying in Currently Black Lace^[1] are composed of Phil Temple^[2] and Britain's Got Talent contestant Craig Harper.^[3]

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Black Lace
Black Lace in Colin Gibb, Alan Barton, Terry Dobson and Steve Scholey
Genres	Novelty, pop
Years active	()–

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Over the years, Black Lace toured around the world, playing party shows throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Canada and the US, and are known for their novelty party anthems such as "Superman" and "Do the Conga".

Terry Dobson and school friend Ian Howarth formed The Impact as a five-piece pop group in , with Alan Barton, Steve Scholey and Nigel Scott. The group also performed under the names Penny Arcade and Love or Confusion.

Ian Howarth left the band for a short while but returned to the line-up in , and Dobson also left, to be replaced briefly by Ne