3 HUGE Hits in 1988…Then GONE! Does Anyone Know WHERE the HELL the SINGER is? | Professor of Rock

A lot of people forgot about this band from the latter part of the 80s… Today’s act actually scored three US Top 10 hits from their debut album All That Jazz. The Sophista pop band named Breath pulled off an 80s hat trick... Not an easy feat. Especially since up until then they were riding out a losing streak of four failed singles. They were all but done. But it would be an impressive comeback and the perfect underdog story… seemingly setting them up for a long and prosperous career. First Hands To Heaven stole the #2 spot. Then came How Can I Fall at #3 and then Don’t Tell Me Lies at #10. This band should’ve been huge. They had the talent, and their lead singer David Glasper had a breathtaking voice. So what happened? Why are they all but forgotten today? Was it a case of the sophomore slump? Or is there some other reason they dropped off the map? Stick around, as we get to the bottom of this one, and try to figure out where in the world their singer is… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day We haven’t done one of these in a while. … Here we honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one-hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle. On previous episodes we have covered Broken Wings by Mr. Mister, Wishing Well by Terence Trent D’Arby, and She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals.
Today we are showcasing the stylings of British Sophisti-pop sensation Breathe, and their 1987 album All That Jazz. More of a one-album wonder, as I mentioned, Breathe scored three Top 10 singles on the Hot 100, including the heart-wrenching beautiful #2 hit Hands to Heaven. But after a promising start that extended into 1989, Breathe faded into obscurity. On this episode we’re figuring out why.
Breathe initially formed in London, England back in 1982. But back then they went by the name Catch 22. Fronted by vocalist David Glasper, the band was made up of a group of longtime friends who all attended school together in Hampshire. The other founding members were guitarist and keyboardist Marcus Lillington, bassist Phill Harrison, drummer Ian Spice, aka Spike, and Micael Delahunty on bass-guitar.
Glasper remembering the band’s origins said, “I was 17 when the band started… the other guys were two years younger than myself... we had bands that we loved, but it was so far apart in musical tastes... Marcus and Phill were into things like Led Zeppelin and Floyd… I was into the Eagles, Little Feat, some soul stuff. Spike was probably into heavier, sort of rock music. So we had all these different kind of styles, which at first was just like a terrible mixture…”