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Article: MUSIC Finley Quaye/ Live Lounge, Baby Blue, Edward Pavilion, Albert Dock.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2009
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BACK in the 90s when the sunny, laid-back strains of Sunday Shining filled the airwaves, the hugely talented Finley Quaye seemed destined to occupy a permanent position as the king of dance pop in the UK charts.
Edinburgh-born Quaye shot to stardom with debut album Maverick A Strike and scooped the 1998 Brit Award for Best British Male Solo Artist, with his mellow blend of Marleyesque reggae and Brit-poppy funk.
But, by the time critically acclaimed Vanguard came out in 2000, his talent seemed overshadowed by his tangled personal life - a stay at the Priory and an affair with Paula Yates were two of a brace of headlinegrabbing incidents.
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Article: Review: FINLEY QUAYE: PETE DOHERTY
The Scotsman;
May 31, 2005 ;
598 words
...FINLEY QUAYE *** PETE DOHERTY ***** BURNS FESTIVAL CLUB, AYR THE most keenly ... fuss. He should bottle this truly special performance for posterity. Finley Quaye, playing later that night, bottled it in a rather different way ...
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