Artist:Inner Circle
Song:Bad Boys
Album:Bad Boys
Of course Bad Boys is best known as the theme song of the long running TV series COPS. But Inner Circle has been popular in the Jamaican music scene since the 70s. The group was started in 1968 by brothers Ian (bass) & Roger (guitar) Lewis. Other members were guitarist Steven "Cat" Coore and keyboard players Michael "Ibo" Cooper & Richard Daley. Coore & Cooper left in 1972 to form Third World and Bernard "Touter" Harvey was brought in. They recorded a couple of albums for Trojan but things changed for the better when the great vocalist Jacob Miller joined in 1976. Inner Circle had a lot of success in the late 70s but Miller's death in a car accident on Mar. 23, 1980 devastated the group and they split up. The Lewis brothers and Harvey moved to Miami and opened a recording studio. In 1986, they reformed Inner Circle and brought in singer Carlton Coffie and drummer Lancelot Hill. They originally recorded Bad Boys on their 1987 album One Way. FOX chose the song as the theme for COPS in 1989 and the song was finally released on CD in the US by Atlantic in 1993. It became a top ten hit and Bad Boys won a Best Reggae Album Grammy. The CD also has a David Morales remix of Bad Boys. Then the song was used in the 1995 film Bad Boys. Coffie left Inner Circle after an illness and was replaced by Kris Bentley. Inner Circle continues to tour the world but they haven't recorded lately. Bad Boys has certainly made them financially secure and they are a good band. Here's the video for Bad Boys by Inner Circle.
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