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'Moving On Up' was the 3rd and biggest of the group's 5 massive hits in the last year... It reached No. 2 for the Pickering/Heard/Small dream-team.
Presumably this would have been before percussionist Shovell was officially recognised as a member of the band then, although he does feature in the video. The upbeat mood of the preceding tracks is continued here, although it's not entirely a song of happy times: indeed it more or less follows the same storyline as 'The Sign', minus the religious overtones. It adds a pinch of innuendo instead though, with the lyric "They boast man has walked in space/But you can't even find my place."
With hindsight, it wasn't that M People were actually that bad so much as that they were a bit average and outstayed their welcome with a lot of very samey records. I can understand why they were resented for bringing dance to the middle of the road but I have to admit this is less irritating than most of the album so far.
Also appearing on: Now 26, 28, 30
Available on: The Best Of M People
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