Cola Boy

Andrew Naughtie, the Peterborough, England musician, records under the alias Cola Boy. A white-label pressing of Cola Boy’s ‘7 Ways To Love’ arrived with a press sheet claiming the track had been funded by Hong Kong teenager Jesse Chin, who liquidated his collection of rare Coke bottles to bankroll the sessions; Chin’s name later appeared on the sleeve of the commercial pressing. The tale still finds believers today. Earlier, Naughtie had collaborated with Bob Stanley and Peter Wiggs during St Etienne’s formative period, and the pair later supplied a remix of the song. After circulating widely on bootlegs, ‘7 Ways To Love’ climbed to number 8 on the UK chart in 1991, buoyed by Janey Lee Grace’s understated vocal. Its successor, ‘He Is Cola’, incorporated Burundi drumming.