COVERSTORY: "CHANGE"   

 

 

 

Change - A Lover's Holiday (WEA, 1980, 6:24)

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12 Inch Cover of "A Lover's Holiday" (1980)

 

Change was a studio group of musicians from Italy and session vocalists from the United States led by Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi.

With material recorded in Bologna (where the producers owned a 24-track studio) and New York, "The Glow Of Love" got the group off to a winning start, with success on the UK charts arriving with "Searching" sung by Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Shaw.

With touring engagements forthcoming, a permanent aggregation of personnel was vaunted, with James Robinson taking over from Vandross on vocals and Diva Gray was brought in for female lead. Following "Miracles" which rocketed to the Billboard's Disco Top 100 and "Sharing your love", he would embark on a solo career and be replaced at the front of the group by Debra Cooper, who later went on to join C&C Music Factory, and Rick Brenna, backed by Timmy Allen, Vince Henry and Michael Campbell. 

The production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis took over for "Change Of Heart", which brought two further UK hits with the title-track and "You Are My Melody".  Time changes everything, and by 1984 Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi were no longer a team. When it became time for a sixth and final album, Petrus looked inward instead of outward and employed the writing and production talents of keyboardist Timmy Allen; he even co-wrote two songs himself. Jacques Fred Petrus was murdered in 1987 at the airport of Guadeloupe. Little is known concerning the mysterious circumstances of his death.

 

Turn On Your Radio (1985)

Change Of Heart (1984)

Sharing Your Love (1982)

This Is Your Time (1983)

Miracles (1980)