Genre: 90s artists

Right Said Fred is an English band based in London and formed by brothers Fred and Richard Fairbrass in 1989. With over 20 million CDs sold worldwide, the group has achieved multi-platinum status and has also won two Ivor Novello Awards – for “I’m Too Sexy” and “Deeply Dippy”.
In July 1991, the group released its debut single, “I’m Too Sexy”, on the independent London-based record label Tug Records. The track is a distinctive dance song which takes a gentle swipe at the fashion industry and features an instrumental break based on “Third Stone from the Sun” by Jimi Hendrix.

It was a huge hit in the United Kingdom, spending six weeks at number two in the charts and three months in the Top 10. The song also went to number one in 32 countries including the United States where it topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Right Said Fred is the first UK band since The Beatles to reach the number one slot in the USA with a debut single. The single also went to number four on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

The second single, “Don’t Talk Just Kiss”, with background vocals by soul singer Jocelyn Brown, was released in October 1991. It made number three in the Christmas UK charts, entered the top five in many countries and reached number eight in the US dance chart.

In February 1992, the band released its third single, “Deeply Dippy”. This was number one in the UK for three weeks and peaked at number nine in the US dance chart.

The success of the singles resulted in the band’s Multi-Platinum debut album, Up, reaching number one in the UK album charts as well as charting worldwide. The album remained in the Top 40 for almost a year.

In 1992, Heavenly Records released an EP that featured the label’s acts covering Right Said Fred songs for charity. The Fred EP contains Saint Etienne (performing “I’m Too Sexy”), The Rockingbirds (“Deeply Dippy”) and Flowered Up (“Don’t Talk Just Kiss”.

Early in 1993 Fred, Richard and Rob wrote and recorded the Comic Relief single, Stick It Out, which was a top five hit in the UK and in many European countries. In September 1993, Right Said Fred released its second album, Sex and Travel, to critical acclaim. Sex and Travel included the hit singles “Bumped” and “Hands Up for Lovers”.

The band received its second Ivor Novello award for “Deeply Dippy”.

Raise Your Hands is Right Said Fred’s first 2013 single. It was released in the USA with remixes from DJ Kash, DJ Sphank and The Majikboys.
The duo made a return to prominence in 2014 when they appeared on the satirical news show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver where they performed a rendition of their song I’m Too Sexy with changed lyrics aimed at insulting Bashar al-Assad.

Reel 2 Real were an American electronic and reggae-influenced duo which had seven Top 10 hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s.

The duo’s core member is producer and DJ Erick Morillo from New York City, who spent a portion of his childhood living in Colombia and also in Union City, New Jersey. The first release as Reel 2 Real was “The New Anthem” which spent a week at No. 1 in 1992.

Although it peaked at No. 8 on the dance chart, Reel 2 Real is best known for the dancehall reggae-influenced dance track “I Like to Move It”, which featured Trinidad and Tobago native and toaster Mark Quashie, also known as The Mad Stuntman. The song peaked at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1994. It was successful in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 5 on the singles chart, and in France and the Netherlands it peaked at number-one.

Rednex had an international novelty hit with their cover version of the song “Cotton Eye Joe” in 1994. They were very popular in Germany, where the band holds the record of most total weeks (25) at number one on the German singles chart over the past 30 years scoring such hits as “Old Pop in an Oak”, “The Spirit of the Hawk” and “Wish You Were Here”.

Rednex usually record their songs with studio musicians, to complement the redneck performers who represent the group on stage and in music videos.

Single and video “Racing” was released in May 2012. This was followed in November 2012 by “The End”. The video for “The End” was recorded on September 2, 2012 at Garay Utca, the ”ghetto of Budapest”, and is a flowumentary. Rednex refuted the notion that “The End” is related to 2012 doomsday theories. The characters featured in the video are Joe Cagg, Dagger, Dakotah, Ace Ratclaw, and Rufus Jones.