Adamski Doctor Adamski’s Musical Pharmacy
It’s the dawn of a new decade, and Adamski is being marched back to the studio to write a brand-new album. He’d only just handed in Liveandirect – a sublime collection of UK rave and Ibiza club sets, captured across the mythical summer of ’89. That was fun. Partying shoulder to shoulder with the Happy Mondays, and living life to the fullest (on and off the decks) at legendary clubs like Amnesia. The last thing he wanted to do was come down, and shut himself in the studio with the pressure of magically coming up with a smash-hit pop album. Unfortunately he’d just made the track Killer, and it was a runaway success that demanded an album to be packaged and sold on.
“It was all a bit rushed,” says Adamski. “I was overwhelmed by my sudden success. I was 21, and had this big hit. I’d only just done my first album, and shot my wad on it…”
Killer had come to him like a gift in his studio in London – then organically developed through live gigs, before vocalist Seal added his magic, unhurried, until just the right phrases and tones fitted.
