British Jigsaw

British Jigsaw – Sky High (1975/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:09 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Private Stock Records

Wanting to carry on, the group continued to make music and signed a new deal with independent UK label Splash, which was founded by Chas Peate himself. Their first single for their new label, titled “Sky High”, was recorded for the film The Man from Hong Kong, a 1975 martial-arts action movie starring George Lazenby. Splash pressed a couple of hundred promotional copies and reaction to the song was good, especially from Radio Luxembourg which began playing the song with high rotation during its nightly English pop music broadcasts to the UK. “Sky High” subsequently made the UK Top 10 in November 1975. The recording was licensed to Chelsea Records in the United States where it reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and to No. 2 Adult Contemporary. The song was also No. 1 in Japan. A famous Mexican wrestler, Mil Máscaras, used “Sky High” as his theme tune. He would walk to the ring with the song playing in the background, and his popularity in Japan helped “Sky High” to become a hit twice over in that country in consecutive years.
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