One of the most memorable one-off hits of the mid-1980s, What’s The Colour Of Money? reached the Top 10 in July 1986 and for a month or so Mark Rogers, aka Hollywood Beyond, was one of British pop’s next big things. The Birmingham-raised frontman made the cover of Smash Hits, performed on Top Of The Pops and The Tube and released his only major label album If, which, unusually for its time, genre-hopped between funk, pop and, in the case of the hit single, Eastern European folk. After it flopped, Rogers relocated to New York to make house music on his own Freetown Inc label. He’s now back and has reactivated the Hollywood Beyond name. Meanwhile, If, after years as a hard-to-find rarity, has been reissued on Cherry Pop.
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