Today’s studio-blog is about Battery Studios.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/the-studios-of-london-battery/
Three kids from Aughakillymaude, near Derrylin, County Fermanagh; the best white soul singer; a duo about to get dropped and George ‘Buddy’ Guy and a Clapton Strat.
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Daryl Hall singing my favourite track from Soul Alone – Alan Gorrie on bass and Charlie de Chant on sax, as ever.
I’d no idea these sessions existed. MAGNIFICENT!!!
Another great entry to the collection @niallb
You live and learn – I really only knew Zomba as Iron Maiden publishers (and weirdly Sam Fox’s) and Jive Records.
So much more that I didn’t realise …
Is this the right room to (gently) point out possible errors?
You’ve got a paragraph that starts “In 1987 …” and ends with “and then they recorded Pyromania”
should that be 1982?
and the para:
Pearlman became fascinated with The Backstreet Boys and how they had made hundreds of millions of dollars in record, tour and merchandise sales. He started a label, Trans Continental Records, with the sole intent of copying what the boy-band and their managers had done. He began a $3 million talent-search and selected the five unknown performers who became The Backstreet Boys.
I’m guessing the first Backstreet Boys reference should be New Kids On The Block?
And that is probably the first time either of those 2 groups have been mentioned in these hallowed pages …
Thanks.🙏
Wonderful, as per. That’s almost a book in itself, and lovely to find it didn’t end with “… converted to luxury flats”.
I was a bit confused by the paragraph that begins “Pearlman became fascinated with”. It mentions the Backstreet Boys twice. Am I just being daft?
Ta. No, first reference should be NKOTB – corrected.
I knew of Zomba through Jive records – therefore publishers of Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, BDP and, yes, Schoolly D.