This is OT, but if anyone remembers the song Brimful of Asha, there is a Times article about Cornershop. Cultural diversity in music, yet somehow quintessentially English. That song still resonates, like a slice of sunshine, an ode to Asha Bhosle.
Incredible as it may seem, a little indie band from the West Midlands once toppled the mighty Céline Dion from her pop throne. In February 1998, Norman Cook’s remix of Brimful of Asha by Cornershop, a tribute to the Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle set to a delightful Sixties-style melody, knocked the Canadian warbler’s Titanic theme My Heart Will Go On off the top spot. Britpop may be retrospectively remembered as a triumph of laddishness, but it also allowed creative outsiders such as Cornershop — made up of the Wolverhampton singer Tjinder Singh and his Canada-born bandmate Ben Ayres — to have a pop at the mainstream, however briefly