The Hit Parade is a group dedicated to recording cheap pop music. They started life as a suburban three piece from south bucks. Schoolfriends Julian Henry, Raymond Watts and Matt Moffatt first played live in the 1980s at the local village hall and rugby club. They released a set of carefully hand designed 7" records on their own labels before getting distracted by other bands, girlfriends and money. In the 90s they became trendy in Japan and released a sequence of albums firstly for an indie label, and then for a Japanese major company, and went on to have a top 20 hit in the indie chart there with 'Hello Hannah Hello'. They toured Japan many times and eventually got bored of the routine and so went into hibernation. Back in the UK they were picked up by Sarah Records, and in the US by Minty Fresh. In 2006 they started to release records again. Now aged in their forties they retain their idealistic approach to writing and recording pop songs and spend most days arguing over which songs should be played at their funeral.
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