Notes Notable cover versions of Siffre's songs "It Must Be Love" was covered by Madness in 1981. The song reached Number 4 in the UK chart and Number 33 in the U.S. in 1983. Labi Siffre also made a cameo appearance in the music video. "(Something Inside) So Strong" was covered by singer Michael Ball in 1996, reaching Number 40 in the UK. Rik Waller also covered the song while a contestant on Pop Idol, hitting number 25 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002. Bibliography PoetryNigger (Xavier Books 1993)Blood on the Page (Xavier Books 1995)Monument (Xavier Books 1997) PlaysDeathWrite (Xavier Books 1997) EssaysChoosing the Stick They Beat You With'' (Penguin 2000) References External links Something Inside So Strong, Soul Music, BBC Radio 4 Arthur Ransome, Great Lives, BBC Radio 4 1945 births Bell Records artists 20th-century Black British male singers English atheists English male poets English people of Barbadian descent English people of Belgian descent English people of Nigerian descent English male songwriters English soul singers English gay musicians LGBT Black British people English LGBT singers English LGBT songwriters Living people People educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing People from Hammersmith Pye Records artists Singers from London 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people Gay songwriters Gay singers