123. House of Love - Destroy The Heart (Creation)

Four weeks at number one from 27th August 1988Strange things were brewing in the Creation Records offices in 1988. On the one hand, Commander McGee had, along with a significant swathe of the British population, got into House music. According to the marvellous book "My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize", he could be found in clubs in London and Brighton, happily swirling around to the latest sounds while under the influence of mountains of delicious ecstasy. Accompanying him would be a gentleman who always took his clothes off at the height of his high, “dancing like ET” afterwards. That man was Guy Chadwick, the lead singer of the House of Love, a group by now widely tipped to be the future of rock music; if not the next Smiths, with whom they had little in common, then perhaps the next U2. There are numerous unexpected contradictions in the above. Chadwick’s group never went near drum machines and samplers, yet there he was, dancing badly to everyone who did. Creation Records…

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