Damage (British band)

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Damage
Origin	UK
Years active	1996-2001
Genres	Pop
Labels	Big Life (1996-2001) Cooltempo Records (2001)
Members	Jade Jones Andrez Harriott Coreé Richards Rahsaan J Bromfield Noel Simpson

This article is about a British boy band. For other uses see Damage

Damage was a British R&B boy band who achieved late success in the 1990s with ten hit singles and four Top Tens.

1 Biography
2 The Games
3 Discography (and UK chart positions in bold)
- 3.1 Albums
- 3.2 Singles
4 External link

[edit] Biography

They were led by the striking figure of Andrez Harriott, and Damage were one of several urban R&B outfits who capitalized on Mark Morrison's international breakthrough during the mid-90s. The quintet was formed at school at the beginning of the decade, when Harriott, Jade Jones, Coreé Richards, Rahsaan J Bromfield and Noel Simpson were all teenagers. They sent a demo tape of a cover version of the Jackson Five song, "Anything", to Jazz Summers of Big Life Records in early 1995. Although Summers was impressed by the quality of their singing and harmonies, he waited eighteen months before issuing their first record. Although it charted outside the Top 50 it achieved excellent reviews and Damage were born.

They made quick inroads into the UK Singles Chart. Their second single, "Love II Love", reached number 12, while the follow-up, "Forever", was a number 6 hit during the lucrative Christmas period. Damage also supported teen sensations Boyzone at their Wembley Stadium performance in 1996.

Their self-titled debut album followed in spring 1997, along with two further UK Top 10 singles - "Love Guaranteed" and a cover version of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight", the latter reaching number 3. The quintet subsequently embarked on an extensive touring schedule, while negotiating a new recording contract following the collapse of Big Life. Jones remained in the media spotlight through his long-term romance with Emma Bunton of the Spice Girls. Damage returned to the UK music scene in spring 2001 with their Cooltempo Records' début, "Since You've Been Gone".

Andrez Harriott & Jade Jones now perform in their current band, CherryBlackStone who perform weekly in channel 4's comedy series "Bo in da USA"

[edit] The Games

In 2006 Jade Jones appeared in the Channel 4 TV series The Games, in which ten celebrity athletes competed in nine different sporting events to win money for their chosen charity. Jones managed to win gold in the male part of the series, along with fellow singer, the female, Javine Hylton.