Who is
Black Man Ray? It is Ray Charles, it is a Nigerian man from Liverpool who ran an arts studio and Man Ray the artist, depending on who you listen to. I subscribe to the latter because the artist was not black! OK, who cares?. I just like the sound of that song and did not quite know what the song was about. The musical phrasing seemed almost intellectually challenged and the voice almost mechanical. I listened to it over and over. Then I listened to CC's other songs and eventually 'got it'. It was just the 80's style. Not crazy about most of it but this song really tickled me. Eventually I enjoyed their other songs, 'Christian' , 'Working with fire and steel' (which has a fantastic base line) and much later St Saviour Square with it's social justice theme.
