Sade and PSP playing Smooth Operator in 1983 ft original drummer Paul Anthony Cooke

This version of the song Smooth Operator by PSP and Sade (An adaptation of the Pride song Diamond Life) is by the original band PSP with Sade with the addition of Andrew Hale on keyboards in late 1983, it was recorded for the Switch TV Show at the time in London. This version has the bands smooth flowing jazz version of that time and the feel was created by the original drummer Paul Cooke who at the time who was very much a 'jazz feel' drummer. The song was finally mastered by the band PSP and Sade in 1983 with Paul Cooke on the drums.
Helen Fola Sade Adu or Sade as she is known now was originally a fashion designer and had no musical backround at all, she founded a fashion company called Lubell and Adu Ltd but this went bust very early into its launch in 1980. She then auditioned for Pride after she had worked briefly for the earlier band called Ariva a Latin Jazz band from Barnet, London. She was actually rejected by the band Ariva as her vocals were not good enough and she was then asked back by the manager Lee Barrett a few weeks later to get involved with Pride. The singer took her revenge when she formed a smaller band within Pride with PSP that she then called Sade and she was courted by RCA who paid for the bands early recordings of Smooth Operator and Your Love is King and Hang onto Your Love in 1983. In late 1982 Jack Stevens from RCA suggested that Helen Adu be pulled out of Pride and they would commision the recordings. The groups manager chose this option with PSP (Paul Anthony Cooke, Paul Denman on the bass and drums and the bands sax player Stuart Mathewman). RCA actually rejected the singer in 1983 because they had been concentrating on the Eurythmics international launch at that time and they also didnt think much to the bands songs. The manager then found a deal for the singer Sade with CBS Records in October 1983, later in the year, but the company wouldnt sign up the whole band only the singer. Paul Anthony Cooke objected to the new sound and change of the old songs created by the bands new producer Robin Millar and also the fact that the singer signed a solo deal. Paul was asked to leave the band in January 1984 by the manger at the request of Angel Prop Ltd the singers newly formed company that had started to control her music. But Cook rejoined the band in 1984 to perform some promotional TV work for Your Love is King on BBC Top of The Pops and the BBC's Oxford Road Show in Manchester, these were the last shows Paul played with the band.