American DJ/record producer Chris Malinchak has been making music for nearly a decade. One of Chris's recent tracks, 'Photograph', sampled a Be Bop Deluxe song, 'Jean Cocteau', taken from their classic 1975 album Futurama and written by their singer/frontman Bill Nelson. Rights to all of Be Bop Deluxe's original albums are available from Cherry Red.
After the demise of 70s art rock legends Be Bop Deluxe, their front man quickly re-emerged with a new incarnation, Bill Nelson's Red Noise, in 1979. This highly promising band were only ever granted one album, Sound On Sound, for Harvest Records before Nelson called it a day and concentrated
In the mid-Seventies lull between Glam Rock and Punk, Be Bop Deluxe epitomised a new breed of Art Rock bands. Led by Bill Nelson and signed to the fashionable Harvest label, the band mixed Progressive Rock leanings with melodic songs across five acclaimed studios albums