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duo from

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, comprising David Titlow and Duncan Millar. Their debut album, ''Rich and Famous'', was produced by Phil Harding and Ian Curnow for

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, with songs written by Titlow and Millar. "It was dance pop, out and out; it needed to work on the dance floor," recalled Harding of actioning the brief given to him by the band. Their song "

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" was a ''Billboard'' Hot 100

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, peaking at #66 in 1988, and they achieved additional success on the US Dance Charts where they spent four weeks at #1 on the

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"That Beauty Is You", they evolved into the

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Nixon and released the song "Sweet Temptation". Later, they released a number of dance tracks under the name Monica De Luxe, which entered UK Dance Charts. Titlow then went on to form the

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band Heave, who released one album entitled Scaramanga on

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in the early 1990s and is now a fashion and music

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. Millar went on to produce further dance tracks including, as Exoterix, the first track released by

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dance label

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in 1993. Later, he released an acid jazz instrumental album under the name A One, on Indochina Records (subsidiary label of

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), and two

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albums on

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, N.Y.C., achieving a UK

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nomination as Best UK Jazz Act for the first of these in 1999.

Discography

Singles

*as Nixon CA Records - NXN 1

Albums

References

External links

Duncan Millar's website

David Titlow's website
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Discography

Singles

Albums

See also

References

External links