A character briefly hot in the British music papers - somewhere between Rick James and rap.
What was funny was that the left-minded writers just assumed there was something socialistic about Prince Charles and his big song "Cash (Money)". Or at least that it was some kind of anti-Reaganism commentary.
But in fact, as he happily explained, to said writers's evident befuddlement, it was simply the case that he really liked money and could do with some more of it!
Around that time there had been "The Message" and songs like "Money's Too Tight To Mention" by the Valentine Brothers (as later covered by Simply Red)
Prince Charles was a bit mono-thematic
Looking at these videos, I'm struck by how camp the clothing is - the leather, the studs, the exposed flesh.
(It's also quite Rob Halford in Judas Priest)
Musically, Prince Charles had a gimmick - an electronic wind instrument called the Lyricon
At some point Prince Charles grasped that the real lasting money in the business was not very like to come through his attempts to make it as frontman and leader of an expensive-to-maintain band, but by solo-careering it as in-demand recording engineer, which is what he did.
He's also a professor of audio engineering.
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