专辑简介

Peter Noone专辑介绍：by Joe Viglione

Peter Noone's One of the Glory Boys has become a highly collectable vinyl recording fetching honorable numbers on e-Bay. If ever there was a great lost album by an artist that has sold in the tens of millions, this is the one. It is brilliant, and what's amazing is that none of this material shows up in Noone's live show. The album boasts great song selection, a cavalcade of stars, and sterling production from Spencer Proffer a year before he took Quiet Riot to the Top Ten with the Metal Health phenomenon. "(I Don't Want to Love You But)You Got Me Anyway" is one of the greatest radio songs of all time that never got to ride to the top of the charts. Sutherland Brothers & Quiver had a minor hit with it from their Lifeboat album, but Peter Noone gives it an entirely different flavor, a wonderful arrangement with Matt Andes from Jo Jo Gunne on guitar along with Lou Reed/Alice Cooper guitarist Steve Hunter and Randy Bishop on keyboards. It is too bad this track wasn't featured in the film Diamonds, which has this artist on the soundtrack; it could have done wonderful things both for the movie and this essential recording. What the singer from Herman's Hermits has done is followed up his poppy new wave band, the Tremblers, with a solo disc utilizing an artist whose own band made waves in the underground and showed promise. Roxy's Randy Bishop (not to be confused with Stephen Bishop of "On & On" fame) makes the best of this opportunity writing or contributing to five of the nine tracks on this disc. "I'm Gonna Rock Tonight" could have easily worked on the Tremblers' Twice Nightly project, but Bishop brings a bit of that singer/songwriter thing to the table which is a different feel than a band collaboration, the haunting "Grace" case in point, and something that Peter Noone's audience would find very appealing. This album could probably go gold if it got the push at the gigs of the artist formerly known as Herman; the rendition of Brian Holland's "Give Me Just a Little More Time" would easily find acceptance from the fans of Herman's Hermits and would provide a diversion to the familiar HH repertoire. The title track is like a lightened-up "Manifesto" from Roxy Music (no relation to the band formerly known as Roxy) and would be a solid opening number for Peter Noone's backing group to play before he takes the stage, Randy Bishop co-writing "One of the Glory Boys" along with Noone and Spencer Proffer. Enough can't be said about the solid musicianship as well as the arrangement of "Give Me Just a Little More Time"; this Chairmen of the Board Top Three tune from 1970 is a monster and could hit again at anytime. It doesn't sound like Herman's Hermits, Noone throwing in some scat à la Billy Stewart's "Summertime" from 1966 and truly breaking away from his original image and sound, but not so dramatic as to confuse his fans. Alan Parsons' reggae-tinged "Nothing Left to Lose" is strong, but even stronger is "Gone With the Wind," which has Beach Boy Bruce Johnston on backing vocals. Producer Jimmy Miller always said to bring the record executive in and have him perform on the disc to get that added push, but there is no need for that here. Johnston clearly knew the value of this project, at least historically, and it is on his CBS-distributed label. If ever there was a prime candidate for re-release and hit potential it is Peter Noone's One of the Glory Boys. This one is a sleeping giant patiently waiting to have its day in the sun.