Pride - Leeds Warehouse 1982 ft Sade Adu on backing vocals

Pride - Leeds Warehouse 1982 ft Sade Adu on backing vocals Where it began for Sade, Pride previously called The Germans a group of boys from the Queen Elizabeth High School Barnet. A friend of theirs Lee Barrett after living in NYC in 1980 returned back to London and joined the band as their manager. He persuaded them to change their bands name to Pride and to make more Latin music. Helen Adu from Clacton Essex and Barbara Robinson had been auditioned and provided the backing vocals. The original group of The Germans and the boys from Barnet got watered down when Paul Anthony Cooke and Stuart Mathewman joined the band to give it a harder edge followed by Paul Denman at the invite of Paul Anthony Cooke who he worked with in a Hull band called The Posers. The original Germans band members Nick Moxom and Ray St John finally got left behind when Lee Barrett failed to secure Pride a recording contract and instead RCA offered the band Sade a recording deal. Sade was an offshoot band featuring Cooke, Denman, Mathewman and Helen on vocals. All the original Sade members from Clacton and Hull went onto record master recording for RCA and CBS between 1983 and 1984 which accumulated in the album Diamond Life this was the original title of the song Smooth Operator which the band Sade changed in 1984 on the release of its first single.