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“You Could Have Been A Lady” was cowritten by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson. Errol Brown was born in Jamaica in 1943. His family moved to England in 1955. Brown got noticed in the music scene when in 1969 he did a reggae cover of John Lennon’s “Give Peace A Chance”. Anthony “Tony” Wilson was born in Trinidad in 1947. Wilson moved in his youth to England. Wilson met Errol Brown in Brixton, UK, in 1968. They formed Hot Chocolate later that year, and Brown wrote many songs for the band. Their song “You Could Have Been A Lady” climbed to #22 on the UK singles chart in 1971.
April Wine is a Canadian rock band that has released 34 singles, 16 studio albums and 9 live albums. They formed in Waverly, Nova Scotia, in 1969. The founding members were brothers David Henman (guitar) and Ritchie Henman (drums) and Myles Goodwyn (lead vocals, guitar). The Henman brothers cousin Jim Henman was also part of the band, but was replaced by bass player Jim Clench in 1971, a year after the band moved to Montreal and released their self-titled debut album. Miles Francis Goodwin was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1948. James Patrick Clench was born in Montreal in 1949. The Henman brothers were born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
With the release of their second album, On Record, the band had a Top Ten hit nationally in Canada in 1972 with “You Could Have Been A Lady”. April Wine experienced only moderate international success, but great popularity in their home country of Canada, reaching the Top 40 singles charts with 21 different songs. In December 2022, Myles Goodwyn, the only original and founding member left in April Wine, announced that he would no longer be touring with the band, turning over his vocal and guitar duties to Marc Parent. He played his final show with the group in early March 2023 with original April Wine member Jim Henman coming out on stage to take a bow during his farewell speech. Goodwyn died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on December 3, 2023, at the age of 75.