The best No 1 records: Steve "Silk" Hurley – Jack Your Body

1987: Harbinger of a whole new sound, courtesy of an essentially anonymous artist ...There were better early house records, but Jack Your Body's unexpected success – and Hurley's anonymity then and now – have given it a special place in British pop history. A full 18 months before acid house fever, Hurley's mercury-thin, metallic beat, with a hairspray hi-hat as prominent in the mix as the vocal, confused the hell out of people; this, after all, was an age of maximalism (it was followed at N...

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