Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight (Lp) (1976) - €10,00

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Timeless Flight is the fourth studio album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, which was released by EMI in 1976. It was written and produced by Steve Harley.

Harley began writing material for Timeless Flight while Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel were touring to promote their 1975 album The Best Years of Our Lives.
The band recorded Timeless Flight during the summer of 1975 at Trident Studios, Abbey Road Studios and Scorpio Sound Studio.
The album was created in a more relaxed environment in comparison with The Best Years of Our Lives, which had been recorded quickly under considerable pressure.

Song information
“Red is a Mean, Mean Colour” is an anti-Communism song. Harley told Record Mirror & Disc in 1976, “I haven’t achieved what I set out to do with that one.
People say it’s a long-winded lyric, but really I was explicit as I could be. When it started out, it had 10 verses and I edited it down drastically. It’s about the concept of a communist and you can’t sum up a man in one sentence for Christsakes.” “Understand” was recorded by Patricia Paay for her 1975 album Beam of Light, which was produced by Harley, who at the time was in a relationship with Paay’s sister, Yvonne Keeley.

Harley later described the song as “a touch of the jazz world”. 

The song has an improvised solo, played on a Mini-Moog synthesizer, which was performed in one take by keyboardist Duncan Mackay.

“All Men Are Hungry” was inspired by a trip Harley took to Belgrade.
In his 2004 interview for the Harley Fanzone, he recalled, “Not everybody was in Belgrade and not everybody can see exactly what I saw that morning but everyone can reflect on the idea that everyone has a need and not everybody is fulfilled. Everybody needs space and time and that’s what the song is about.”
In one of the song’s verses, Harley refers to Ernest Hemingway’s 1932 book Death in the Afternoon. “Nothing is Sacred” was written by Harley after he visited the banks of the Danube in Belgrade.
In 2003, he commented, “It’s the true story of three of us [Harley, Cregan and Lindsay Elliott] staying up ’til dawn and partaking of the hedonism that one did in the Seventies.”
The song was recorded in the studio after most of Cockney Rebel and the recording crew had gone home.
Harley wanted to try out the song in the studio and he ended up recording it with the band’s second drummer Lindsay Elliott, bassist George Ford and guitarist Jim Cregan.

Side A

A1.  Red Is A Mean, Mean Colour - 4:29   

A2.  White, White Dove - 5:36   

A3.  Understand - 7:14   

A4.  All Men Are Hungry - 4:50   

Side B

B1.  Black Or White - 5:48   

B2.  Everything Changes - 2:23   

B3.  Nothing Is Sacred - 5:42   

B4.  Don’t Go, Don’t Cry - 5:04 

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

• Steve Harley – vocals
• Jim Cregan – guitar, backing vocals
• George Ford – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Duncan Mackay – keyboards, string arrangement on “Black or White”
• Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
• Lindsay Elliott – percussion

Additional musicians

• Patricia Paay – backing vocals (track 3)
• Yvonne Keeley, Barry St. John – backing vocals (tracks 3, 5)
• Madeline Bell, Peter Clarke, Larry Steele, Liza Strike, Leroy Wiggins, Joy Yates – backing vocals (track 5)

 Production

• Steve Harley – producer
• Peter Kelsey – engineer (tracks 1-2, 4, 6, 8)
• Tony Clark – remix engineer (all tracks), engineer (track 2)
• Ray Hendriksen – engineer (tracks 3, 7)
• John Kurlander – engineer (track 5)
• John Leckie – engineer (track 5)
• Chris Blair – master cutter

 Design

• Mick Rock – sleeve design, photography, art direction
• Steve Ridgeway – art direction, lettering
• Julie Harris – lettering

Notes

Release:  1976

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Glam rock

Label:  EMI Records

Catalog#  5C 062-06000

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed VG)  (Gatefold)

Prijs: €10,00