Beats International was a British electronic music band, formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook, after his departure from The Housemartins. Career A loose confederation of musicians, the line-up also included vocalists Lindy Layton, Lester Noel and David John-Baptiste, rapper MC Wildski, keyboardist Andy Boucher. Unusually, the band's live line-up also incorporated a graffiti artist, who would paint designs on a backdrop while the musicians played. Their first album, Let Them Eat Bingo spawned the UK number one single "Dub Be Good to Me", a re-working of the S.O.S. Band's hit "Just Be Good to Me", based around a sample of the bassline from The Clash's "Guns of Brixton" and featuring Layton on vocals. The second Beats International album was 1991's Excursion on the Version, which featured a greater use of dub and reggae sounds, but failed to repeat the success of its predecessor. This was the last Beats In

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