RAS Records, the stalwart Washington D.C.-based reggae label that released the album, didn’t have the marketing or distribution clout to make a dent in the mainstream with the song, but the band sensed its potential and re-recorded it for their next album, 1989’s “Identified.” This was the same year that a new Fox TV show called “Cops” debuted, which used “Bad Boys” as its opening theme song, apparently chosen by one of the show’s producers who just happened to be an Inner Circle fan. Their second post-reunion album, 1987’s “One Way,” featured a catchy song written by Ian Lewis called “Bad Boys” tucked away on the album’s second side. That all took place completely separately from the music scene in Jamaica, where dancehall had taken hold, but Ian and Roger Lewis, the two brothers at the core of Inner Circle, had identified their market and pursued it with the same professionalism they had displayed from day one. They set about reestablishing themselves in an international reggae market that was still reeling from Bob Marley’s death in 1981, and had managed to secure major tours opening for acts like the Police and Talking Heads. When Inner Circle reconvened in 1986, the members having moved their base to Miami, they were fronted by new singer, Calton Coffie. But Inner Circle soon established itself upon hooking up with a charismatic young vocalist named Jacob Miller, with whom the band had many hits - until Miller’s tragic death in a March 1980 car crash forced the band to take a few years off to regroup.
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