Cola Boy

Cola Boy is the name used by the Peterborough, England artist Andrew Naughtie. Cola Boy’s ‘7 Ways To Love’ was mailed out as a white label with a press release saying the record had been financed by a Hong Kong teenager who had sold his collection of rare Coke bottles to subsidise the project - one Jesse Chin, who was acknowledged on the sleeve of the stock release. Some people continue to give credence to the story to this day. Naughtie had previously worked with Bob Stanley and Peter Wiggs in the early days of St Etienne, who remixed the track. ‘7 Ways To Love’ reached number 8 in the UK chart in 1991, after being widely bootlegged, with its subtle vocal contribution from Janey Lee Grace. The follow-up was ‘He Is Cola’, which featured Burundi drumming.