Win a Sade Hamper

In honour of the release of Sade's first album - Soldier of Love - since the year 2000, I am giving away one Sade hamper. I posted my Layman Thoughts on the new album a couple of weeks ago and have been able to get my hands on some of the groups past CDs and DVDs. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post answering a very simple question: what was the name of Sade's last album? Only one entry allowed. Please note: Unfortunately, this competition is only open to residents of South Africa. Only if you have a South Africa address that the hamper can be delivered to. The...

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Sade – Soldier Of Love

It is a day that blurs into the rest - nameless, timeless, and vaguely familiar – except for one thing. I must have been about 13/14 years old. Young enough to still be naive about and frightened by the hormonal murmurings that seemed to manifest themselves more and more frequently each day but, at the same time, starting to understand what caused them – the opposite sex. There were pre-MTV days but still we devoured whatever music videos we could get our hands on. In Maseru, Lesotho, an American man based there used to have someone record videos in the US and send them down. He booked a...

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