This original song available on Labi Siffre's 1975 album Remember My Song (remastered on EMI CD in 2006) and on the 2006 EMI CD of re-mastered tracks The Best of Labi Siffre. The song is often incorrectly referred to as I Got The Blues, a title Labi rejected as being "a cliché too far" For rapper Eminem's hit single My Name Is, hip hop record producer Dr. Dre wanted to use a sample (written by Siffre and including Siffre on electric piano) of this song for the rhythm track. Siffre objected to what he describes as "lazy writing" (in the sleeve notes of t… read more
This original song available on Labi Siffre's 1975 album Remember My Song (remastered on EMI CD in 2006) and on the 2006 EMI CD of re-mastered t… read more
This original song available on Labi Siffre's 1975 album Remember My Song (remastered on EMI CD in 2006) and on the 2006 EMI CD of re-mastered tracks The Best of Labi Siffre. The so… read more
Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter, and singer. Born the fourth of five children to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father and raised in Bayswater and Hampstead, London, he was educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School in Ealing. His musical influences included Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Jimmy Reed, Wes Montgomery, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Reed, and Mel Tormé. In July 1964, he met his partner Peter Lloyd, and the two officially became partners under the Civil Partnership Act 2004 when the Act entered int… read more
Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter, and singer. Born the fourth of five children to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father and raised in Bayswater and… read more
Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter, and singer. Born the fourth of five children to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father and raised in Bayswater and Hampstead, London, he was educated at a Catho… read more