Zulqar Cheema from London has a Soundcloud account where he has a bunch of recordings by a 80s band called Risque.
Was he part of the band? We’ll find out…. or at least we’ll try to.
On Soundcloud we find a few recordings. There are three tracks live from a gig at the Square Harlow Rock Contest 1986 – BBC Essex TRX, “Beyond Belief”, “If You” and “Talking Bout”. Then two studio recordings that have no name, both from 1986, and lastly the great track “Dancing on a Tightrope”.
Zulqar also has a Youtube channel. Here he mentions he is a video director and producer. In his channel there is a video of the band playing at the Harlow Town Park sometime in the mid 80s. He mentions that the singer, Billy, also appears on another video, one of the band Billy Gone West playing “Sweet Home Alabama“.
It is interesting then, we find a good amount of songs, even live footage. But there are no details about the band other that the vocalist was called Billy (and no last name). It would be safe to think the band hailed from Harlow. But other than that, I don’t have more to go on. Was Zulqar part of the band? I can’t say. If he was he probably would know the names of the two 1986 studio recordings he uploaded. But who knows.
Would be great to find out more about them. Who remembers Risque?
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