A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop by Anthony Kwame Harrison

“…In a 1987 interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read, members of the British pop group Five Star collectively stated that their hopes and wishes for 1988 were “to crack America” – that is, to achieve comparable success in the US music market to what they had in the UK. …”
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