My 1st guest of the show this week was Phats and Small vocalist Tony Thompson.
Phats & Small appeared on the scene in 1998 with “Turn Around”, a track that featured sampled Toney Lee’s “Reach Up”.
The song debuted at number three in the UK Singles Chart, before climbing to number two.
They also released their first album, Now Phats What I Small Music, a play on their name and the compilation series Now That’s What I Call Music!.
In 1999, Phats & Small also achieved notoriety for remix the Earth, Wind & Fire track, “September” and Simply Red’s “Ain’t That a Lot of Love”. Other remixes around the same time included PJ “Happy Days”, Space Raiders “I Need Thxinge Disko Doktor” and High Steppers “I Will Follow”.
Tony Thompson, sang on most tracks in Phats & Small’s second album, This Time Around, released in 2001, which featured an eponymous single, as well as “Change” and “Respect The Cock” (which was supposed to feature the phrase uttered by Tom Cruise in the film, Magnolia). The second album was co-produced by Jimmy Gomez.
Tony is due to re-unite with Ben Ofoedu who appeared in `Turn around` for the NYE Marbsfest at the Brentwood Centre Dec 31st
To find out more, listen again to the full FM interview here.
See Phats & Small ft Tony Thompson video for ‘This Time Around’
Tony Thompson on the Sunday Lunch Show
Tony Thompson at Phoenix FM
Furter information on MarbsFest can be found at; https://www.marbsfest.com/
