Kid Creole and the Coconuts: how we made I’m a Wonderful Thing, Baby
▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/28/kid-creole-and-the-coconuts-how-we-made-im-a-wonderful-thing-baby
I drove all the way from California to New York, and on that journey, envisaged Kid Creole and the Coconuts, a band that didn’t do drugs or have lunacy in the studio. In the Savannah Band I’d modelled my style on 1930s/40s jazz singer and showman Cab Calloway, and I created Kid Creole as an extreme version of that, a sort of lounge lizard/bon vivant or what an ex-girlfriend called a “lovable rogue”. I’d always wanted to be an actor, and played Kid Creole so well that I began to like him more than August Darnell.