‘Top of the Pops showed our video at the end of one show – just as millions of people were tuning in for EastEnders. Soon after, we went to No 1’
When the band formed we were just out of the same school and trying to find our way in music. Growing up in England with West Indian parents, we’d listened to the Rolling Stones or Rod Stewart as well as reggae. My first band was a school rock group with some white friends.