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Mark Raymond King (born 20 October 1958) is an English musician. He is the lead singer and bassist of the jazz-funk band Level 42 . King is known for his slap style of playing the bass guitar, with MusicRadar describing him as "the guy who put the slap in pop during the 80s". [1]
Jun 8, 2019 · As the scintillating bassist in one of planet’s hottest bands Mark King spent the 80s living it up till the sun went down. There were parties with Madonna and Tina Turner, private jets, Aston...
Level 42 – bassist and vocalist Mark King, keyboard player/vocalist Mike Lindup, guitarist Boon Gould, drummer/lyricist Phil Gould and studio-only whizz kid Wally Badarou – were, by 1983, well-respected survivors of the early 80s Britfunk explosion, but had yet to really break big.
Oct 12, 2022 · Mark King’s hard-hitting bass pyrotechnics with Level 42 became the driving force behind many of the band’s Top 40 hits and paved the way for slap-bass playing in mainstream 80s pop. The group notched up 20 UK Top 40 hits throughout the 80s before eventually disbanding in 1994.
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- Jaydee Supernatural Classic. “I picked up my first JayDee bass, which was a Supernatural Classic [serial number 0003SA], from a music shop called Sounds, just off Charing Cross Road in London," says Mark. "
- Alembic Mark King Signature. “We were on our second tour of the States, opening some shows for Steve Winwood outside San Francisco, and this guy from Alembic showed up with a suitcase and said that he wanted to make a bass for me.
- Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass. As Mark began work on his post-Level 42 solo project, One Man, released on 5th July 1996, he went in search of a new bass sound that would differentiate his new album from his Level 42 days.
- GB Spitfire. King’s association with Fender was short-lived. “That set-up was great and worked really well, but when I went out touring I started running out of Mark King material and began putting more Level 42 songs into the set.
Although Mark King released two solo albums, his previous band's music proved to be persistently popular and he found that he was playing more and more old Level 42 tracks at live shows. In late 2001, King came to a business agreement with Mike Lindup and bought the rights to the name Level 42.
The longtime frontman for the British funk-pop group Level 42, Mark King was born in Cowes, England, on October 20, 1958. A onetime drummer, upon co-founding Level 42 in 1980 he moved to the bass, honing a distinctive thumb-slapping technique which became an integral element of the group’s sound.
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