{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"MusicGroup","@id":"https://superfan.social/artists/the-beloved#artist","name":"The Beloved","url":"https://superfan.social/artists/the-beloved","image":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6772690000c46c06ae11b1a9367bb178916081","description":"1985 The Beloved emerged via two John Peel sessions.\n1986/7 four independent singles later compiled as an album - Where It Is.\n\n1987 departure of Tim Havard (bass) and Guy Gausden (drums) leaves original founders Jon Marsh (voice, keys) and Steve Waddington (guitar).\nA trip to NYC then discovery of seminal club Shoom changes everything.\n\n1988 sign to WEA as a poster-fodder pop group, but experience a seismic shift in direction. \nTheir 1st club track Acid Love on promo 12” within months.\n \nThe 2nd Your Love Takes Me Higher came out early ’89.\nThe 3rd was 'Sun Rising' summer ’89, their first hit single.\n\n1990 'Hello' - Top 20 and TOTP.\nThe album Happiness, a distillation of the fun, optimism, and energy of the 88/89 (acid) house scene released to great acclaim.\nA remix album Blissed Out was released in the autumn, with new song It's Alright Now as a single.\n\nSteve left in 1991; Jon continued recording as The Beloved, with Helena Marsh as co-writer/co-producer.\nTheir 1st release, early 1993 was Sweet Harmony - a major hit record worldwide.\nBoth single and the accompanying album Conscience were their biggest selling releases.\n\nA further album - X - with singles 'Satellite' and Deliver Me arrived in 1996.\nA re-released The Sun Rising and a best-of Single File in 1997.\nThen silence.\n\nJon produced remixes as The Beloved, several releases under alias (on JBO & NRK), and a full time dj career until 2006.\n\nStill silence.\n“I can’t split up with myself so I think of it as hibernation”.","genre":["madchester"]}]}

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