[Malte Müller]

For a change I was listening again to Roger Hodgson’s album Hai Hai and I was wondering if it is a coincidence that the song London ist so similar in style and subject to Sting’s English Man in New York. Both songs came out in the same year. But it wouldn’t make me wonder if Sting was inspired by this.

I hear a similar Reggea(?) inspired beat but otherwise I find it not that much similar actually.

I see what you mean. Those synthetic Latino sounds. «It’s Alright» is more jazz rock, though.

There are lots of songs with similar Latino sounds in the 80s, aren’t they. I remember Miami Sound Machine as a more known band with those. But would always be interesing to know who actually was first.