Steve Harley and CockneyRebel
on tour
 

FACE TO FACE WITH YOUR FAVOURITE ARTIST

Lots of questions have been asked about the Face To Face tour back in 1976.
After the succesful 'Timeless Flight' -tour, Steve wrote 'Love’s A Prima Donna' with its Top 10 hit 'Here Comes The Sun' . It brought Steve back in the charts after the dissapointed sales from hitsingles 'Black Or White (And Step On It)'  and 'White, White Dove' .
A tour had to follow and the master decided to use his ‘to be by motown-influenced’ style a bit this time. Songs like 'Mr. Soft', 'Psychomodo' and 'Mad Mad Moonlight' sounded like they have never sound before.  Most extraordinary and very creative.  Steve has always been very creative with his own songs.

What’s to play this time? When you have the record and you have been to the concert, you must have noticed that the songs are in a different order.
Steve produced the album in a way that every record (even every side) has its own beginning and its own end.
For them who have been to those concerts and listened to the album must be convinced that this is a very fair album. Many questions have been asked if some parts where overdubbed or played afterwards in the recording.
None of it is true. The concert on the album is exactly the same as Steve and Rebel played it.

Unfortunately Steve cut 'Innocence And Guilt' and 'Is It True What They Say?' because there was already 'Tumbling Down' and 'Sebastian' which has the similar effect. Lots of fans kept asking me, “Where is this clownsdrag for in the pictures on the innersleeve or which song is this?”. With the intro of  'Innocence And Guilt' ,Steve went into the dressingroom and came up dressed with a broom.
He used tapes on this song together with heavy guitar and organwork. This was such a massive piece of rock and roll. You should have been there!

That’s why I try to catch as many gigs as I can. There is always a song which can keep me going on for years.
 

Best regards
Hans Peters