121. S'Express - Superfly Guy (Rhythm King)

One week at number one on 13th August 1988I’m pondering this track while walking the dog and grabbing a drink at the local cafe – something I often do when drafting new blog entries – when, serendipity abound, I realise that the young women on the counter are listening to a seventies disco compilation. Sadly, this isn’t the kind of compilation that reflects a wide spread of the dancefloor hits of the era, but a kind of sanitised, Heart FM “disco super smashes” effort. So while I’m hanging around, I get to hear Boney M’s “Rasputin” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, and marvel at the fact that these were Proper Songs with lyrical stories and momentum. For as much as they were disco, they were also Pop.Gloria Gaynor gasping and singing “Oh!” before the final chorus of “I Will Survive” means the same thing to everyone. Out there away from the Classic Pop Smash which happened to have a groove, however, lay a bunch of songs which probably meant something different to each of the…