Paul
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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2012, 10:23:11 AM » |
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How about Gez, Morning has Broken from Cat Stevens Teaser & the Firecat. The song got as high as number six in the USA pop charts. It also reached top spot in the US easy listening chart.
Peace Train from the same album reached number seven in the billboard hot one hundred in the US
Also featured Rick Wakeman on keyboards. Paul |
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« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2012, 10:26:35 AM » |
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I hope they're proud.  no prouder men in the queue at the bank, when they deposited their cheques from the lovely Bev Gotta pay the bills somehow, and it wasn't that bad!! Money can't buy you integrity, Jim. And yes it was, Billy. It was toe-curlingly awful saccharine dreck. Jules |
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« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2012, 10:32:51 AM » |
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The honour must go to DM musn't it, if only for consistency of success. Elton John's Nikita alone must have shifted several million copies.
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« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2012, 11:29:40 AM » |
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I hope they're proud. no prouder men in the queue at the bank, when they deposited their cheques from the lovely Bev Money can't buy you integrity, Jim. but it does pay mortgages, allow you and your family to eat and perhaps fund FC related activities |
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« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2012, 11:32:16 AM » |
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but it does pay mortgages, allow you and your family to eat and perhaps fund FC related activities
Yes. Yes, it can do all those things. Jules |
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« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2012, 11:47:41 AM » |
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And I understood at the time that Beverley C was one of the very first people to put her hand up to take part in the SwarbAid event.
Personally, I love the song, but as I'm a girl, and was in a long-distance relationship at the time, that's probably understandable.
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« Reply #26 on: May 14, 2012, 11:51:34 AM » |
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I guess I should never post so late in the evening because of course I knew about Iain Matthews Woodstock...D'oh!! Beverly Craven I know by name only. The Proclaimers Sunshine On Leith shows Jerry and DM playing on it (DM with an asterisk for his songs as there are two drummers listed). Jerry played throughout the album I had thought, most notably his solo on Then I Met You.
In any case, thanks everyone
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I'm just a little shy of Surf's Up and I'm deeper than Twist and Shout....Iain Matthews
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« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2012, 03:27:22 PM » |
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I saw Simon in Beverley Craven's band when I took my first wife to see her.
All in all a very enjoyable evening it was too!
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« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2012, 07:00:33 PM » |
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RT contributed acoustic guitar to "Not the Only One" (by Paul Brady), which reached No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary Charts in 1992 for the lovely Miss Bonnie Raitt.
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« Reply #29 on: May 15, 2012, 09:37:47 AM » |
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Were DM & Peggy involved in "Star Trekkin'"? I have a vague recollection of that song being recorded by Matt Clifford and "friends" - was it during downtime while they were working on Cathy LeSurf's album?
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« Reply #30 on: May 15, 2012, 10:18:46 AM » |
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Were DM & Peggy involved in "Star Trekkin'"? I have a vague recollection of that song being recorded by Matt Clifford and "friends" - was it during downtime while they were working on Cathy LeSurf's album?
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« Reply #31 on: May 15, 2012, 11:57:48 AM » |
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I just looked on wikipedia - no mention of DM and Peggy, but the 'brains' behind it, one John O'Connor, worked with Maddy Prior!  |
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« Reply #32 on: May 15, 2012, 12:44:58 PM » |
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I think so far DM with Elton on Nikita would be the biggest.
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« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2012, 09:10:32 AM » |
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At risk of reviving old flames, I was checking through record collection today and Pat Donaldson is on the first Beverley Craven record along with the other three,and Simon and Maart are on the second one too. I think the abuse is a touch over the top: she writes her own material, and they're decent enough songs, if not quite Bob Dylan, and its all nicely played so on... If you listen to the TOTP repeats they've been putting out on the TV lately and recall what utter dross used to make the charts in the "good old days" then to my mind there's nothing to be ashamed of in her material at all.
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« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2012, 10:20:49 PM » |
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I saw Beverley Craven sing Promise Me at the Albert Hall. Her singing was beautifully phrased and melodic, her piano playing sublime and she is tall, slim and gorgeous. I'm sure it was no hardship accompanying her!
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« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2012, 09:33:39 AM » |
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I saw Beverley Craven sing Promise Me at the Albert Hall. Her singing was beautifully phrased and melodic, her piano playing sublime and she is tall, slim and gorgeous. I'm sure it was no hardship accompanying her!
Not my kind of music, but a fine performer none the less... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPismcJ1VU |
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« Reply #36 on: May 21, 2012, 01:14:17 PM » |
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Was not Bruce involved in Je Suis Un Rock Star by Bill Wyman.
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« Reply #37 on: May 21, 2012, 01:45:32 PM » |
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Was not Bruce involved in Je Suis Un Rock Star by Bill Wyman.
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« Reply #38 on: May 22, 2012, 08:14:40 AM » |
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I just looked on wikipedia - no mention of DM and Peggy, but the 'brains' behind it, one John O'Connor, worked with Maddy Prior! And John O'Connor is on Cathy's LP - pic on the back sleeve of him, DM, Peggy, Matt Clifford & Cathy... |
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