Babylon Zoo

Babylon Zoo were a British rock band from Wolverhampton, who gained international fame in 1996 with debut single Spaceman. The single appeared on 21 January 1996. In the first week some 418,000 copies were sold, which was a record at that time. Spaceman thereby captured the number one position in the UK Singles Chart, and not much later in the charts of 23 other countries.

Although Spaceman was the first official single from the band, Babylon Zoo had since May 1993 a record deal with the Dutch record company Phonogram Records . When A & R -manager Clive Black same year switched to Warner Bros. Records (part of the Warner Music Group ), Babylon Zoo moved along. The release of the debut album was delayed because Black not much later, a new move, this time to EMI . Again Babylon Zoo moved along. In 1995 the band signed a seven album contract with EMI.

In 1996 Spaceman appeared as debut single, after earlier copies for promotion were assumed to include radio stations. The release of the song was planned, that coincided with the appearance of a television advertising for new jeans from Levi's where a lot faster from the song was used. A few months later, the debut album The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes .

In 1999 a second album of Babylon Zoo, titled King Kong Groover . Jas Mann, leader of the band, the album decided not to promote. This dissatisfaction over the fact that he self since the departure of Black, who had signed him no support from label EMI got more. Mann, who was himself of Indian origin, decided not much later to India to go and worked there for some time for a development.