NEW: Against a backdrop of a hostile wider society, Lovers Rock music and the house parties of yesteryear were a cocoon of serenity. I spoke with musical icons @JanetKayMusic, Carroll Thompson ( @queenoflovers) and @BarryBoomMusic about it. #SmallAxe https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/small-axe-lovers-rock_uk_5fb6895dc5b695be83009369?ncid=other_twitter_cooo9wqtham&utm_campaign=share_twitter">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sma...

"Lovers Rock was made at a time when we were all teenagers, mid-late 1970s, and we sang about falling in love for the first time because that’s what was happening, meeting our partners, working,” Janet Kay – whose classic & #39;Silly Games& #39; we love – told me.
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Barry Boom explains that racist UK nightclub venues did not welcome Windrush migrants at the time – so his parents& #39; generation would have parties at each other’s houses and it soon became an important tradition. "The energy was all about love," he says.
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Carroll Thompson said: “There’s a trajectory, in terms of UK sound, and the mother of that is lovers rock. It goes right through to @EstelleDarlings, @CorinneBRae, you can hear the influences in their sound. Sade, Soul II Soul." https://www.huffp.st/6K1owvg ">https://www.huffp.st/6K1owvg&q...

Carroll says Britain& #39;s mainstream music industry didn& #39;t embrace lovers rock because they never controlled it. “It was controlled by independent Black record labels," she explained. Interesting. Something like the UK& #39;s answer to Motown? https://www.huffp.st/6K1owvg ">https://www.huffp.st/6K1owvg&q...