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The song was written by David Courtney and Leo Sayer, and featured Daltrey's acoustic guitar strumming. According to Daltrey, it "reminiscences of Shepherd's Bush " [A place in west London where Daltrey had grown up and the Who were formed] and became one of the highlights of the album, and later released as a single in its own right in some ...
Just a Boy is the second album by English singer-songwriter, Leo Sayer, and was released in 1974.It features his interpretations of two songs ("One Man Band" and "Giving It All Away") written by Sayer and David Courtney for the Who's lead vocalist Roger Daltrey's debut album, Daltrey.
Daltrey, joking, asked Sayer to write him some songs for a solo album. Sayer and Courtney came back with ten songs, which Daltrey recorded for his first solo album. [7] Sayer enjoyed greater chart success than Daltrey did as a solo artist; the opening track on this album, "One Man Band" (also reprised at the end), became one of Sayer's biggest ...
Gerard Hugh "Leo" Sayer (born 21 May 1948) [2] is an English-Australian singer and songwriter who has been active since the early 1970s. He has been an Australian citizen and resident since 2009. Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and became a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in that decade ...
The song was written by the then-unknown Leo Sayer with David Courtney. [1] [2] [3] Adam Faith and David Courtney produced the track. [4] The song was the first single from the 1973 album Daltrey. It reached number five in the UK Singles Chart but failed to chart in the US. Daltrey would never beat this chart position in the UK throughout his ...
One Man Band (Roger Daltrey song) Orchard Road (song) S. The Show Must Go On (Leo Sayer song) T. Thinking (song) Thunder in My Heart (song) Y. You Make Me Feel Like ...
A few years before he became an iconic piano man on the pop charts, Billy Joel played in a couple of hard-rocking psychedelic bands. One of them, Attila, was a duo featuring Joel playing distorted ...
The recording of Silverbird was a difficult and somewhat experimental process, Adam Faith and David Courtney had many ideas but no real experience in record production. The writers, Sayer and Courtney, were inspired however and the album started to come together at Virgin Records' Manor Studios in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire.