from Paul Cooke you tube channel (I found it yesterday):
"The singer in October 1983 transferred without my knowledge the rights of the RCA sessions and recordings to CBS on the 19th October 1983. Including songs such as Smooth Operator & Your Love is King.
The producer Robin Millar and his engineer Mike Pela sampled my drums in the RCA sessions and then in November 1983 without my knowledge used a Linn drum and a session drummer to re-create some of the songs such as Cherry Pie et al in isolation from the rest of the band?
In January 194 the singer Sade Adu sacked me from the band and gave me an invoice for work done in the studios sessions as if I was a session drummer. This was in consideration of her contract with CBS Records. Further to this in 1996 I was represented by the record company as a session musician on some of the Sade recordings for Diamond Life?
In 1984 I performed with my former band Sade on the BBC ‘Top of the Pop’s show performing the drums for ‘Your Love is King’. The singer Sade Adu represented the band Sade as five members of the group signed to Epic Records her record company.
In 1985 the record company Epic Records removed my drums on Smooth Operator for the video track. I was replaced on the video by John Rose who was later convicted of drug dealing in the same year. A non drummer. My drums had been re-performed by a session musician called David Early.
In 2001 or thereabouts the band Sade re-recorded Smooth Operator in The USA removing my drums once again and creating a new version of the song that appears on ‘Sade essentials’ product by Sony."
about the original recording of Smooth operator (EMI Studios 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYO3CsEebXg"This is one of the first ever recordings of Smooth Operator at EMI STUDIOS 1983. EMI Publishing requested that we demo some songs for them in 1983 a later deal was done with the band Sade in 1984 for at least 500K on the basis of what we did in the studios in 1983 and further to what we produced on the Diamond Life Album in 1984. This is a video of the actual Smooth Operator recording + archive pictures from the time when we created the song Smooth Operator at the Solid Light Studios in Camden London. Music produced at EMI Studios in early 1983, many months before recording the album Diamond Life in Oct-Dec 1983 with Robin Millar at PowerPlant Studios.. The band at the time comprised of myself, Paul Denman, Stuart Mathewman and Helen Adu. The actual music royalty split for this song should have been COOKE/DENMAN/ST JOHN as myself and Paul Denman wrote the bass line and the drum parts, Ray the music. The singer decided in 1984 she would get 50% of the music even though she wasn't a musician? This is the first ever studio recording of the song Smooth Operator along with 'You don't have to say you love me' and 'Spirit' also recorded at EMI Studios at the same time..member Stuart Mathewman. Could have been end game for Sade if SM had been convicted as well "
PD: Some things i remembered were right
Are you going to start screwing over Redo like you screwed over MSK with your endless requests? what an idiot you turned out to be MATT