FOCAL POINT - LOVE YOU FOREVER DEMO 7" SINGLE DERAM DM186 1968 VG+/EX
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Description
Focal Point - Love You Forever/Sycamore Sid
Label: DERAM ?– DM 186
Format: Vinyl 7", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1968
Genre: Pop
Style: Pop/Psych
Record: Side A - Very Good + condition
Side B - Excellent condition
Sleeve: - Plain white with cut-outs, not original
This is a 'DEMONSTRATION SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE'
Matrix / Runout (A-side): DR-42235-TI-IC
Matrix / Runout (B-side): DR-42236-TI-IC
3 Minute Sound Clip (approx 85 seconds of both side 1 & 2)
https://youtu.be/vI7sLetPWcM
Profile:
Focal Point were a short-lived pop-psych outfit from Liverpool, based around songwriters Paul Tennant and Dave Rhodes who in the summer of 1967 became the first two writers signed to the fledgling Apple label. Tennant claims that he and Rhodes ambushed Paul McCartney walking his dog in Hyde Park and managed to blag an introduction to Apple Music Publishing head honcho Terry Doran. Allegedly the ensuing band’s name, Focal Point, was suggested by Brian Epstein. Apple sponsored the band through the rest of ‘67, housing and equipping them and recording demos of their songs at Apple’s makeshift studio at 94 Baker Street with producer Lionel Morton (ex-Four Pennies).
Focal Point signed to Decca’s progressive music subsidiary Deram early in 1968. Four songs were re-recorded to professional quality and the first 45 came out soon afterwards, “Love You Forever” b/w “Sycamore Sid”. Inexplicably the selected A-side was a sappy, unoriginal love song notable only for its excellent mellotron accompaniment, and unsurprisingly it tanked chartwise. The B-side of the single however, had been a fine, aggressive slab of hard psych and has appeared on psych compilations from the 1980s onwards. After unsuccessfully trying to reawaken interest at Apple, the band returned to Liverpool and concentrated on live work, supporting top-flight acts touring the North. By mid-69 they’d gone back to their day jobs.
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