Jyoti Mishra: the unknown man who wrote 1997's catchiest hit

Jyoti Mishra: the unknown man who wrote 1997's catchiest hit

You won’t ever have heard of Jyoti Mishra, but you’ll almost certainly have heard his mammoth 1997 hit. Such chart success all happened by fluke and happenstance. First forming his White Town indie band in the late 1980s, the East Indian but Derby-raised musician combined Marxist rigour, straightedge ethos, and a racially conscious outlook – the band name a reference to the white working-class Midlands neighbourhood where Mishra spent his format…