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and production duo for Pete Waterman's label

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which consisted of Jamie Bromfield and Boyowa 'Yoyo' Olugbo. '' Record Mirror'' reported in June 1988 that Yoyo had left to engineer exclusively for

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and Kevin O'Reordan replaced him. Since 1987, the duo mixed many Stock Aitken Waterman hit song productions such as Rick Astley's " Never Gonna Give You Up",

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" and " The Loco-Motion", Dollar's "

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", Brother Beyond's " The Harder I Try", "

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" and "Can You Keep a Secret?", as well as Marc Almond's "Bitter Sweet (The Big Beat Mix)", among others. Working outside of the Extra Beat Boys, Bromfield, Olugbo and O'Reordan have produced and mixed tracks alongside producer/engineer Phil Harding. Among Bromfield's works with Harding are

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's " Rise to the Occasion", Shooting Party's "I Go to Pieces", Rick and Lisa's " When You Gonna" and Shanice's "

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". Bromfield, O'Reordan and Harding remixed Belouis Some's "

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" on the single release of " Some Girls" (the 'Can U Dig This Mix'). Olugbo has co-written/co-produced tracks for many artists; together with Harding, they mixed Jermaine Stewart's "

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", then later on Olugbo worked on tracks such as the Brand New Heavies' "

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", Hear'Say's " Another Lover" and

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's " Straight from the Heart".

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Yoyo
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Jamie Bromfield
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Kevin O'Reordan
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