Robin Scott

Robin Scott (born April 1, 1947 in Croydon , London ) is a British singer and musician. In the late 1970s he landed an international hit with the single Pop Muzik under the name "M". The song was one of the first commercially successful New Wave / Electropop productions.

biography

Scott attended Croydon Art College in the late 1960s. At this time he was performing as a folk singer in London and released his first album under the title Woman from the Green Grass . He was also part of David Bowie's regular backing band for some time . In the 1970s, Scott produced a number of bands on his own record label , including Roogalator and Adam and the Ants .

In 1978 Scott moved to Paris and published there for the first time under the name "M" - the name is derived from the signs of the Métro Paris  - the single Modern Man . It was not a success. With his second publication, however, he achieved a world hit. Pop Muzik stormed the British charts in April 1979 and rose to number two there. With some delay the single reached number one in Germany in June 1979 and stayed there for six weeks. Finally, in November 1979, “M” also made it to number one on the US Billboard charts.

This was followed by three more singles and two albums between 1979 and 1982, with which "M" could no longer build on its success with pop music . A remix of Pop Muzik reached the top 20 of the British charts again in 1989.

In 1997 U2 used pop music as an intro during their popmart tour .

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

New York – London – Paris – Munich   US 79 January 19, 1980 (8 weeks)

Singles

Pop music   DE 1  gold 06/04/1979 (22 weeks)   AT 2 07/15/1979 (16 weeks)   CH 1 06/17/1979 (14 weeks)   UK 2  silver 04/07/1979 (14 weeks)   US 1 08/11/1979 (24 weeks) Moonlight and Muzak   UK 33 December 8, 1979 (9 weeks) That's the way the money goes   UK 45 03/15/1980 (5 weeks) Official Secrets   UK 64 11/22/1980 (2 weeks) Pop Muzik (1989 re-mix)   UK 15th 06/10/1989 (9 weeks) So fly   UK 96 11/02/2002 (1 week)

Albums

as Robin Scott

• 1969: Woman from the Warm Grass
• 1982: Left Handed Dream ( Ryūichi Sakamoto feat. Robin Scott)
• 1998: Jive Shikisha (with Shikisha)

as M

• 1979: New York - London - Paris - Munich
• 1980: The Official Secrets Act
• 1982: Famous Last Words
• 2009: Pop Muzik 30th Anniversary Remixes

Compilations

as M

• 1993: The History of Pop Muzik
• 1996: Pop Muzik: The Very Best of M

Singles

as Robin Scott

• 1969: The Sailor
• 1982: The Arrangement (with Riuichi Sakamoto)
• 1982: Once in a Lifetime (with Riuichi Sakamoto)
• 1982: Just About Enough (with Riuichi Sakamoto)
• 1982: Eureka-ka-ka!
• 1984: Crazy Zulu! (with The Afrikan Pioneers)
• 1989: Pop Muzik (1989 re-mix)
• 2000: Pop Y2K (Part 1)

as comic romance

• 1978: Cry Myself to Sleep

as M

• 1978: Modern Man
• 1979: Pop Muzik
• 1979: Moonlight and Muzak
• 1979: That's the Way the Money Goes
• 1979: Cowboys & Indians
• 1980: Official Secrets
• 1980: Join the Party
• 1981: Keep It to Yourself
• 1982: Danube
• 1995: Spiritual Man

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	250,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	gold1	-

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE, AT, CH, US UK

Web links

• Robin Scott's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robin Scott at Discogs (English)
• Comic Romance at Discogs (English)
• M at Discogs (English)