Although the song ” Notorious ” was a US and UK top ten hit, the album was a relative failure globally, reaching number 16 in the UK and spending one week in the top 50 album chart. The band found they had lost much of the momentum and hysteria they had left behind in 1985. In the three years between the release of Seven and the Ragged Tiger and Notorious , many of their teenage fans had grown up and the music was funkier, more mature, and less “pop”, given the added experience of their work on Arcadia and Power Station and with other musicians. ” Skin Trade ” and ” Meet El Presidente “, the two subsequent singles, made the charts but fared poorly compared to the band’s earlier successes. Finally in late 1987, Sterling Campbell was hired as a session drummer.
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