Genre: Scottish pop/rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Star
Gear costume: Everything Will Turn Out Fine
Active compensatory factors: As promised in LP 131's post, I finally caught up with a copy of this album in the $10 bins at Real Groovy.
Stealers Wheel can do the instant transportation thing with me. One bit of Star and I'm instantly back in 1973 - heading off to football on a winter Auckland day in a car with some team mates when this comes on the radio.
It's those creamy harmonic tones by Egan and Rafferty!
Star is the star of the show. As one critic at the time said - it's 'a catchy shuffle of the Lennon-esque variety, 'Star' is 3 minutes of pure shimmering acoustic-guitar pop loveliness and honey-throated vocal harmonies, punctuated with spikes of harmonica, kazoo, woodblock, and bawdy barrelhouse piano'.
Bang on!
Remember them this way!
Where do they all belong? Gerry obviously would head off to solo success via Baker Street and tragically, after years of alcohol abuse, pass away from liver failure in 2011. Joe Egan is still with us, thankfully.
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