“Champagne” by Big Audio Dynamite

"Champagne" sits on Tighten Up Vol. 88, the third Big Audio Dynamite album, which Columbia put out in June 1988 with a title swiped from Trojan Records' old Tighten Up compilations and a sleeve designed by Paul Simonon, Mick Jones's former bandmate in the Clash. Keyboard man Dan Donovan, who also shot the back cover photo with Josh Cheuse, co-wrote the song with Jones.

Here the microphone gets passed around the whole crew: Donovan, Don Letts, Greg Roberts and Leo Williams all take vocal credits, while Jones is credited on guitar and in the producer's chair. Roberts plays drums, Williams handles bass, and Paul Smykle engineered. It's a gang effort in every sense, the sound of a band treating the studio like a house party with the doors left open.

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