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You Sexy Thing is a Disco act. They run in the same orbit as Don't You Want Me, What Is Love, David Jordan and Rock Your Baby, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into T-Shirt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around You Sexy Thing and forward to T-Shirt. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"You Sexy Thing" is a song by the British soul band Hot Chocolate. It was written by lead singer Errol Brown and bass guitarist Tony Wilson and was produced by Mickie Most. The song was released in October 1975 as the second single from their second album, Hot Chocolate, and reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1975, as well as number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 the following February. Billboard ranked it the number 22 song for 1976. It went on to gain notability by being featured in the 1997 film The Full Monty.
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You Sexy Thing shares an orbit with Don't You Want Me, What Is Love, David Jordan and Rock Your Baby, went on to shape T-Shirt. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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