Mickey Ruption / Busta Livingstone - Work (Poor, Lonely And Broke)An extremely talented vocalist, Mickey Ruption's first exposure to the music industry began with "Jump In The Pool," a critically acclaimed single featuring Mickey in a duet with Jamaican toaster Busta Livingstone, who happens to be Mickey's cousin. The session was intended a be a one off, but the producers of the single were so impressed by Mickey that they urged him to record more, and were surprised to learn that Mickey had been stockpiling demos

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The single - King Truman's 'Like a Gun' - was in fact a pseudonym for Paul Weller and his Style Council cohorts

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adding new scenes - and a female principal in the form of the Polish princess Marina Mniszek - and changing the overall structure from seven scenes into a prologue and four acts

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