SEALED LP: STEVE HARLEY: TIMELESS FLIGHT

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Steve Harley: Timeless Flight

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: EMI: ST-1150
Original release date/year: 1976
Bar Code: NONE
Condition of the cover: Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 2 ounces
My inventory number: 209567A
Notes: - - -
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I DO NOT END ANY OF MY AUCTIONS EARLY. PLEASE DON'T ASK (unless you are willing to offer enough to pay off my mortgage. Songs

• Red Is a Mean Mean Colour
• WhitWhite Dove
• Understand
• All Men Are Hungry
• Black or White (And Step on It)
• Everything Changes
• Nothing Is Sacred
• Don't GDon't Cry
• Throw Your Soul Down Here (*)
• MaMad Moonlight (Live)

Credits

• Patricia Paay: Vocals
• Barry St. John: Vocals
• Larry Steele: Vocals
• Liza Strike: Vocals
• Leroy Wiggins: Vocals
• Joy Yates: Vocals
• Mick Rock: Art Direction, Photography, Cover Design
• Michy: Sleeve Art
• Madeline Bell: Vocals
• Duncan Mackay: Keyboards
• Chris Blair: Master Cut
• Tony Clark: Remixing
• Pete Clarke: Vocals
• Jim Cregan: Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
• Lindsey Elliott: Percussion
• Stuart Elliott: Percussion, Drums
• George Ford: Bass, Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background), Vocals
• Steve Harley: Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Main Performer
• Yvonne Keely: Vocals
• Seamus Egan: Liner Notes

Album Review

• Steve Harley followed up the ambitious fusion of pop and artsy glam rock he perfected on The Best Years of Our Lives with this even more ambitious and artsy outing. Unfortunately, Timeless Flight neglects the strong pop hooks that made The Best Years of Our Lives so appealing. Much of Timeless Flight finds Harley getting bogged down in deliberately impenetrable wordplay ("Black or White (And Step on It)") and songs that, despite slick arrangements, are rather hookless vehicles for the verbose lyrics ("Don't Go, Don't Cry"). As a result, the album has a self-consciously obscure feel that is rather off-putting. However, a few highlights shine through for the patient listener: "Red Is a Mean, Mean Colour" benefits from a hypnotic melody that combines fluid electric piano lines and woozy vocal harmonies to create a compelling ebb-and-flow effect, and "Understand" is a lovely ballad that weaves a lush soundscape from a judicious combination of delicate piano lines, Spanish guitar, and lilting background vocals. That said, the appeal of these occasional gems isn't enough to make the album consistently engaging, and Timeless Flight can only be recommended to Steve Harley completists as a result. ~ Donald A. Guarisco, All Music Guide

Biography
Steve Harley biography by Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

• British rocker Steve Harley was born Steven Nice in London on February 27, 1951; the son of a jazz singer, he was stricken with polio at age two and spent the better part of his adolescence in and out of hospitals. After trying his hand at journalism, by the early '70s Harley was busking throughout London, forming the band Cockney Rebel in 1973 with guitarist Jean Paul Crocker, bassist Paul Jeffreys, keyboardist Milton Reame James, and drummer Stuart Elliott. Signing to EMI, the group debuted with The Human Menagerie; the single "Judy Teen" followed in early in 1974, becoming Cockney Rebel's first hit. Psychomodo was also a success, but as Harley's combative relationship with the press worsened he dissolved the group soon after. A Harley solo single, "Big Big Deal, " preceded the formation of a new Cockney Rebel lineup, which again featured drummer Stuart Elliott in addition to new guitarist Jim Cregan, bassist George Ford and keyboardist Duncan McKay.
• 1975's The Best Years of Our Lives generated Harley's first U.K. chart-topper, "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me), " on its way to selling over a million copies; the follow-up Love's a Prima Donna also launched a Top Ten hit with its cover of the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun." But in the wake of 1977's Face to Face -- A Live Recording, Harley again disbanded Cockney Rebel and relocated to the U.S., recording the better part of Hobo With a Grin in Los Angeles before returning to Britain. 1979's The Candidate failed to restore his commercial lustre, and with the exception of a minor 1983 hit "Ballerina (Prima Donna)" he spent the better part of the '80s removed from the pop scene. When his recording of "Mr. Soft" experienced a rebirth thanks to its use in a television commercial, Harley assembled a hits collection of the same name. Soon after he formed a new incarnation of Cockney Rebel and regularly toured into the following decade. 1999's Stripped to Bare Bones documents an acoustic set recorded the year previous. Yes You Can was issued in summer 2000.

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