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Hot Chocolate at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

Compilation of Hot Chocolate's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ performances and rare interview extracts, including Every 1's a Winner, Emma, So You Win Again, It Started With a Kiss and You Sexy Thing.

Errol Brown, who died aged 71 in May 2015, was probably the most famous and ubiquitous black British pop star of the 70s and early 80s. He co-founded Hot Chocolate with Tony Wilson in 1970 and the band went on to have a hit every year between 1971 and 1984.

This compilation of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ performances and rare interview extracts celebrates Errol and Hot Chocolate, showcasing their Top 10 hits alongside rarely seen early performances and cult fan favourites.

We journey through over 15 years of chart smashes showcasing all the infectious numbers - Every 1's a Winner, Emma, So You Win Again and It Started With a Kiss - and of course, The Full Monty scene-stealer You Sexy Thing, a song that was in the charts in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

There are reminders of just how many Top 10 moments they had, with Girl Crazy and No Doubt About It, the hit that got away - Mindless Boogie - and their first appearance on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ television with Love Is Life. Hot Chocolate were that rarity, a 70s British pop band who largely wrote their own tunes and arrangements and a mixed race band who perhaps inadvertently helped foster an early sense of British multi-culturalism. In Errol, they had a frontman who was not only a great singer, songwriter and frontman, but also resolutely and undemonstratively always himself, at ease in his own skin.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 30 Jul 2023 00:10

Music Played

  • Hot Chocolate

    Love Is Life

  • Hot Chocolate

    You'll Always Be A Friend

  • Hot Chocolate

    Emma

  • Hot Chocolate

    A Child's Prayer

  • Hot Chocolate

    You Sexy Thing

  • Hot Chocolate

    Don't Stop It Now

  • Hot Chocolate

    Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac

  • Hot Chocolate

    Put Your Love In Me

  • Hot Chocolate

    So You Win Again

  • Hot Chocolate

    Every 1's a Winner

  • Hot Chocolate

    I'll Put You Together Again

  • Hot Chocolate

    Mindless Boogie

  • Hot Chocolate

    No Doubt About It

  • Hot Chocolate

    Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy?

  • Hot Chocolate

    Girl Crazy

  • Hot Chocolate

    It Started With A Kiss

  • Hot Chocolate

    Tears On The Telephone

  • Hot Chocolate

    I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I)

  • Errol Brown

    You Sexy Thing

  • Hot Chocolate

    Every 1's a Winner

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

  • Hot Chocolate

    So You Win Again

  • Hot Chocolate

    I'll Put You Together Again

  • Hot Chocolate

    It Started With A Kiss

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Role Contributor
Producer Tamsin Curry

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