Saturday - 11/7/20 (#063)

‘CULT OF PERSONALITY’ - LIVING COLOUR

I remember this video being played in heavy rotation on MTV during the late 1980s. I was lucky enough to see Living Colour perform as the support act for the Rolling Stones at Shea Stadium (Flushing, NY). The combination of heavily distorted guitar, fat funk bass lines and-in-the pocket drumming, topped with a vocal range that soared to great heights filled with anger and pop sensibilities was the perfect mix for me and millions of others. The song very much holds it’s weight and still sounds fresh 32 years after it’s release.

The below paragraph, explaining it’s backstory, was written in October 2016 by David Ling for LOUDER music website.

“Cult Of Personality was about celebrity, but on a political level,” Reid explains. “It asked what made us follow these individuals who were larger than life yet still human beings. Aside from their social importance, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King both looked like matinee idols. That was a strong part of why their messages connected.”

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