Alexander O'Neal - A Broken Heart Can Mend (1985)Here on stage at Hammersmith Odeon, London, nice sound quality on this clip, later in the show he invites a fan from the audiance and sings to her over a double bed on stage . O'Neal was born in Natchez, Mississippi on 15th November, 1953, but moved to Minneapolis when he was 20. He joined a group called "The Mystics" and played the local coverband circuit. O'Neal spent a short time in a group "Enterprise" before being recruited into "Flyte Tyme", a band that included Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Monte Moir. Later signed by Prince to the Warner Bros. label with their name changed to The Time, a disagreement with Prince led to O'Neal leaving the band and being replaced as lead singer by Morris Day. Allmusic profiler John Floyd asserts that O'Neal was ousted for "looking 'too black!"
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