Paul Young has revealed a surprising guest star who appears on his debut album, ‘No Parlez’.
The record took the singer to the top of the UK charts back in 1983 and remained in the UK Top 100 for 119 weeks, selling over 1.2 million copies in the country alone.
It spawned a run of hit singles, including the No. 1 Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) and classic Love Of The Common People, but it’s album cut Sex that features a host of cameos in its opening bars.
“I was determined to get as many people saying ‘sex’ as possible at the beginning,” he recalled during a London playback of the ‘No Parlez (40th Anniversary)’ reissue, out now. “I used to carry a little cassette player in my jacket and I ran into [people like] Mari Wilson and said, ‘Could you say six into this microphone, please?’”
He also recorded famous faces from the television saying “sex”, including Margaret Thatcher, who was Prime Minister at the time.
“I don’t know why and I don’t know how long I sat there,” he adds, “but it got to the point where she was talking about something and she said the word ‘Middlesex’. And I got it.
“So somewhere in that melee of people saying ‘sex’ is Margaret [Thatcher].”
