LIVING COLOUR frontman Corey Glover carried out the band’s basic tune “Cult Of Persona” on the March 17 episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Present”. Glover, who was backed by Kelly‘s band MY BAND Y’ALL, was additionally interviewed by visitor host Kal Penn. Now you can watch video of his look under.
In an April 2024 interview with The Logan Present, Glover was requested about LIVING COLOUR‘s breakthrough single “Cult Of Persona”, a pointed, politically charged tune which opens the band’s debut album, 1998’s “Vivid”. The observe consists of audio snips of political speeches and references to John F. Kennedy, Gandhi, Stalin and Mussolini, and it turned LIVING COLOUR‘s signature tune and the accompanying music video was an MTV hit. A searing indictment of politicians that readily addressed the issues of an voters in the course of the mudslinging Bush–Dukakis presidential marketing campaign, “Cult Of Persona” hit No. 13.
“I believe if it weren’t for that tune, I might be working for UPS,” Corey mentioned. ” How about that? If it weren’t for that tune and the evergreen nature of that tune, as a result of it looks like sometimes it pops up in very fascinating locations — with CM Punk or the video video games or ‘Guitar Hero’ and even inside the political discourse, the place individuals use it and quote it on newscasts. It has a bizarre type of persevering with life that I’m very comfortable and really grateful that it exists.”
“Vivid” went on to turn out to be the primary album by an all-black rock band to win a Grammy for “Finest Laborious Rock Efficiency” and the video for “Glamour Boys” was the primary to be closed captioned for the listening to impaired.
LIVING COLOUR disbanded in 1995 however reunited in 2000. (Authentic bassist Muzz Skillings left the group in 1992 and was changed by Doug Wimbish.)
In June 2020, LIVING COLOUR launched a video for its basic tune “This Is The Life” that includes footage of the peaceable protests that swelled throughout the U.S. and all over the world over the dying of George Floyd by the hands of police. The unique model of “This Is The Life” appeared on LIVING COLOUR‘s 1990 album “Time’s Up”.
LIVING COLOUR‘s newest album, “Shade”, was launched in September 2017 through Megaforce Information.
