Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing

Video: Hot Chocolate performing ‘You Sexy Thing’ on the german TV show ‘Disco’ in April 1976.

“You Sexy Thing” – Single by Hot Chocolate from the album Hot Chocolate
B-side “A Warm Smile”/”Amazing Skin Song”/”Call the Police”
Released 24 October 1975
Label RAK (UK), Big Tree (Atlantic) (US)
Songwriters Errol Brown and Tony Wilson
Producer Mickie Most
Charted No.3 in US; No.2 in UK; No.4 in Ireland; No.7 in Canada; No.16 in Sweden; No. in West Germany

Errol Brown, who came to England from Jamaica with his mother when he was young, formed Hot Chocolate in London with Tony Wilson in 1969. They recorded a reggae version of “Give Peace A Chance” that got the attention of John Lennon, who released the single on The Beatles’ Apple Records. This led to a deal with Mickie Most, who signed them to his RAK label. The pair wrote “Bet Yer Life I Do,” which was recorded by Herman’s Hermits and hit UK #22. They had their first UK hit of their own with “Love Is Life,” then went on to a string of UK hits, including a #1 in 1977 with “So You Win Again.”

The song was released in October 1975 as the second single from their second album, Hot Chocolate, and reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1975, as well as number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 the following February. Billboard ranked it the number 22 song for 1976.

This was a hit in over 50 countries. In the UK it sold over a million copies but stalled at #2 behind “Bohemian Rhapsody” for six weeks.