CJJC
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Posted: Aug. 21 2012, 09:08 |
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Quote | When I lived in Gloucestershire, Steve Winwood was a fairly frequent visitor. He lived quite close to Througham where I lived. When I moved away from Gloucestershire we kept in touch and when Moonlight Shadow was a big hit he called me and asked me to write something for him. I thought it was a great idea and spent the next few months writing a song. But in the meantime he'd gone to the States and recorded Back in the High Life and had a hit with Higher Love. I presented him with my humble offering shortly after, but by that time he'd gone off into the stratosphere in terms of superstardom and didn't seem interested in recording the song I'd written. That was Magic Touch. I found a singer called Max Bacon* to sing on it and he did a very good job. It's a great track, and Virgin made a great promotional video and I edited the video at my own studio.
I spent ages working on the track Islands and was having trouble thinking of a good singer who could do justice to the song. I got in contact with Bonnie Tyler and asked her if she would sing on the track and to my delight, she agreed. She came to the studio with her husband and as soon as she sang the first few notes of the song I got a huge lump in my throat and the whole song came to life. She was a lovely lady with a very special voice. Andy Mackay from Roxy Music played oboe on the track and I was very happy with it. |
*as noted elsewhere on this thread, despite the mention of Max Bacon, the version of Magic Touch on this compilation is sung by Jim Price.
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