The band's debut album, The Glow Of Love, was released in 1980 and featured the million seller A Lover's Holiday. The follow up hits, Searching and the title song feature lead vocals by the then unknown Luther Vandross. The three songs combined spent 9 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Disco charts, enough to make it the #1 Disco album of the year and a million seller in the U.S.

The Sunday night journey to Hammersmith is a nightmare. Most of the major lines are shut for "on going work" whatever that means. So it`s a bus and train from north London for me. God only knows what MJ had to go through to get from deepest darkest south London. “Thank the gods for the iphone 3g”. We finally meet in a bar to show off what the new soul am t-shirts look like on their first outing in the capital.

The SOS Band is an American musical ensemble, founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1977. Originally known as Santa Monica, the "SOS" initialism in the band's name does not stand for Save Our Souls—but for Sounds of Success.