Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack

Great, great song and a highlight of UK R 'n' B in the mid-nineties. This tune did really well in the states too, and made to to the No. 2 spot, only to be held off the No. 1 by Hanson's 'Mmmbop'. A travesty. You just can't deny the head bop during this song. In the official video, the image of Morrison sitting behind his big desk, stroking his chin with a leather clad hand is an iconic image in the history of UK music. Perhaps.

Even better than this run-of-the-mill video (although favoured by myself for being particularly evocative of nineties style), is his quite frankly incredible Brit Awards perfermance in 1997. In the early part of the same year he'd been sentenced to jail for three months for boarding an aircraft with a stun gun, and I swear he milked this for years after, protesting his innocence.

Anyway, this is one of the most amazing live perforances I ever saw (if you ignore Ben Elton). It's got everything. He enters rockin' a huge white chinchila fur coat, escoted by policewomen. Female fans drape themselves over him on stage and he continues to sing on live, as security drag them away. More policewomen join him, as they all strip down. When he whips his coat off, he's got a shirt with the words 'Only God Can Judge Me' on the front, 'Not Guilty' on the back. He stage dives backward into the crown and continues to sing. Live. He's got a mental amount of presence on stage.

Better than the Jarvis Cocker stage invasion at the Brits.

Fuckin' incredible.