Leo Sayer - Another Year CD : Release Information

Leo Sayer - Another Year. CD. (RPM - RPMSB1003) Third album by notorious UK singer-songwriter and Pierrot-visaged pop star of the 70s and 80s, whose early work we believe is long overdue for reappraisal (NB: Freak Emporium does not recommend any work released after 1977's 'Thunder In My Heart'). Of a similar vein to Al Stewart, Tony Hazzard, Brian Protheroe, Alan Price and even Duncan Browne's work of the period, with semi-glam inflections and recurrent lyrical themes concerning bedsit life and all manner of English kitchen sink dramas (rather like the pop equivalent of a Pinter or Sillitoe script), this album, whilst not matching its predecessors for drama, is worthy of serious investigation. Hit single 'Moonlighting'-covered, as was most of Sayer's repertoire at the time, by Roger Daltrey- is about as English as it gets outside of Viv Stanshall, and other undiscovered gems include 'The Kid's Grown Up' 'Bedsitterland' (er, was Marc Almond a fan, perchance?) and the superbly evocative and bitter 'The Last Gig of Johnny B Goode' in which a reflective Sayer contemplated the end of a musical career. Strange to think that within a year he and bassist/writing partner Frank Farrell would have upped sticks to LA and become disco kings, leaving behind bedsitland, gritty realism and (eventually), good music forever. Ah well. . .

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