Blue Mercedes

Blue Mercedes were a pop music duo from London, England, made up of David Titlow and Duncan Millar. Titlow was infamous for wearing purple shorts with the words "Funk Ass" printed on them, whilst Millar played a large portable synth with double keyboards — they dubbed their musical style 'Street Latin Wolff'. Their only Billboard Hot 100 hit was "I Want To Be Your Property," which peaked at to #66 in 1988 and spent four weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. They had two more dance chart entries in 1988.

After releasing the single "That Beauty Is You", they evolved into indie dance band, Nixon, and released "Sweet Temptation". A second single was recorded and manufactured by MCA Records, a cover version of the Sex Pistols' "Submission", however this was never released. Nixon also remixed the Blur song "Bad Day" from their first album for Food Records; whilst the mix was rejected by the band, a white label twelve-inch did appear.

Titlow then went on to form the indie rock band Heave, who signed to Radar Records in the early 1990s, releasing the singles "Suna/12XU" and "Pig Pretty". They followed this with the album "Scaramanga", which was produced by Bryce Goggin, and released in both the UK and Japan.

Today, Titlow is a fashion and music photographer.

Charts

Singles - UK Singles Chart

*as Nixon [MCA Records - NXN 1]

Album - UK Albums Chart

ee also

*List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
*One-hit wonders in the UK