Marshall Hain | |
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| Origin | England |
| Genres | Pop |
| Years active | 1978–79 |
| Labels | Harvest Records |
| Members | Julian Marshall Kit Hain |
Marshall Hain were a British pop-rockduo known for their 1978hit "Dancing in the City", a UK No. 3 hit single on theUK Singles Chart in mid-1978[1] and number 3 in Australia.[2]
The duo comprised keyboard player Julian Marshall and vocalist and bass playerKit Hain, who met while they were pupils atDartington Hall School.[3]
"Dancing in the City", written by both members,[4] was also a hit in Europe and Australia, where it spent 24 weeks in the Australian Charts[2] during August through to December 1978, peaking atNo.3. In the United States the song reached No. 43 on theBillboard Hot 100chart in the winter of early 1979.[5] "Dancing in the City" also climbed to the top of the South African singles charts that same year, receiving extensive airplay and was included on Vol 5 of the long-running compilation album seriesPop Shop.[citation needed]
They followed this up with theballad "Coming Home", which reached No. 39 in the UK Singles Chart later that year.[1] Both singles were on theHarvest record label.[1] "Coming Home" was backed bystrings andfretless bass, and they released an album entitledFree Ride. In 1979 they called it quits.Free Ride peaked at number 56 in Australia.[2]
Hain continued pursuing a recording career and released two albums in the UK: 1981'sSpirits Walking Out, which included a minor hit "Danny", and 1983'sSchool For Spies.[6] She also had songs recorded bythe Who's lead singerRoger Daltrey (four songs on three albums),Kiki Dee, andBarbara Dickson, before moving to the US in 1985.[citation needed] There she concentrated on her songwriting. She has written withAimee Mann ("RIP in Heaven" and "Crash and Burn" onTil Tuesday'sEverything's Different Now album),Heart andCyndi Lauper, and had songs recorded byPeter Cetera andChaka Khan (the top 5 AC hit "Feels Like Heaven" written with Mark Goldenberg),Cher ("Fires of Eden" also written with Goldenberg and recorded byJudy Collins),Fleetwood Mac ("Winds of Change"), as well many other recording artists, garnering chart success worldwide. Her songs also have been licensed for use in MTV'sThe Hills as well as network shows includingThe Unit andSex and the City.[7] She also released a third solo album,Cry Freedom, in Belgium in 1995 (Tempo/EMI).[7] In 2012 she started a career as an author under her married name, Kit Grindstaff.[8]
Marshall stayed in the UK and became a member ofthe Flying Lizards, who had atop 10 hit in both the UK and Australia with theircover of "Money (That's What I Want)" in 1979. The song reached No. 50 in the U.S.
Marshall later formed the duoEye to Eye with singer-songwriter Deborah Berg. Eye to Eye released a single called "Am I Normal?" which was written by Marshall and Berg. This failed to chart in the UK although their song "Nice Girls" charted in the U.S., reaching No. 37 on theBillboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1982. A second song, "Lucky," reached No. 88 in the U.S. during the autumn of 1983.
"Am I Normal?" was covered by David (real name Virginia David) in 1983 on the Stiletto record label.[9] It wasproduced byAndy Hill, but also failed to chart in the UK, despite beingplaylisted onBBC Radio 1.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
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| AUS [2] | GER [10] | ICE [11] | ||
| Free Ride | 56 | 44 | 4 | |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
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| UK [12] | AUS [2] | AUT [13] | CAN [14] | GER [15] | IRE [16] | NL [17] | NZ [18] | SA [19] | SWE [20] | SWI [21] | US [22] | |||
| "Dancing in the City" | 1978 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 43 | |
| "Coming Home" | 39 | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Real Satisfaction"(Australia-only release) | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Dancing in the City"(Summer City '87) | 1987 | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Dancing in the City"(Summer '92 Remix) | 1992 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
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