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2 unusual facts about New Beat


New Beat

When MTV Europe began in the summer of 1987, it brought the term to the UK.

MTV Europe's VJ Steve Blame was a great fan of new beat and through his position on MTV News, promoted the Belgium's new beat sound through his reports.


Morton Sherman Bellucci

Morton (Jo Casters), Sherman (Herman Gillis) and Belluci (Roland Beelen) were among the founders of the New Beat musical trend that started in Belgium and expanded to elsewhere in Western Europe in 1987.


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Chaylon Brewster

Brewster was again asked to make a whole new beat for the track, and then Guinness Book record holder D.O. and Derrty Ent's Prentiss Church were included in the track alongside Brockway Biggs.