Sophistication Of The Eighties
Pexels Sophisti-pop, soul pop, yacht rock and an occasional Japanese city pop song are the ingredients of a new series: Sophistication Of The Eighties , named after the Steve Harley song. Enjoy! When Andrew Gold was in England to record with his band Wax, he met British singer Steve Harley in the kitchen of RAK studios and Gold offered Harley to play piano on his song Sophistication . The track was meant to be put on Harley’s album El Gran Senor , but his record company RAK went bankrupt and the album never came out. Years later Harley managed to get Sophistication back and released it on an independent label. Denim rockers Status Quo started as a psychedelic rock band in the 1960s, but felt uncomfortable with their image and therefore changed their music style drastically in the 1970s. They played straight forward rock from then on and eventually became successful with it. For more than 20 years they were regular visitors of the charts. Although there were some serious struggles with...