Peter Sinfield

Scrambled_Eggs wrote: He wrote lyrics for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, PFM, and Garry Brooker from Procol Harum?!?!, and Sinfield also released his own album titled "Still" in 1973.  I know he produced a few albums too, but I can't seem to recall which ones.

Not that I know of , in Procol Harum!!! Keith Reid was the official lyricist. Also a lyrics only contributor!!!  Maybe on a solo album of Gary Brooker.

Although Pete Sinfield did handle the light show for KC too and toured with them as a member. By the time of Island (and already Lizard) , he was the only original member left except for BOB, himself!

Apparently , Robert hated people calling him Bob, and was really pissed off at the persons persisting into it.

I don't know, maybe I'm in the minority, but I purchased this album and was seriously disappointed with it. I expected something more visionary and instead got a lot of mediocre, overproduced pop-rock crap. Pete Sinfield cannot sing and therefore should not sing.

Pete Sinfield is a good lyricist, a good imaginative poet in the romantic vein, and he should stick to that (and actually try to more seriously develop his talent instead of writing schlock lyrics), but hey everyone's got to make a living, and far be it from me to put down the way a person makes a livelihood.

But the album...don't go there, or go there with a safety net.

Grimm wrote: ... Peter Sinfield wrote the lyrics for a song appearing on the 1996 Celine Dion album Falling Into You. The song is called Call The Man.

Not very pleasing song.

Vaize wrote: Peter Sinfield's best solo album is the excelent STILL.

Wasn't that Pete's only solo album....

And of course the best song on that album is the track "Still".... especially that chorus... I wonder why??

DallasBryan wrote: Is his best lyrics/band moment KC - 21st Century Schitzoid Man OR PFM - Is My Face on Straight?

Actually its ELP's "Closer to Believing"

Moribund wrote: Anyone remember The Land of Make-Believe by Buck's Fizz?? Yep - it's true!!

For our overseas viewers...

BUCKS FIZZ
UK vocal group named '80 by husband/wife management/ prod. team of Andy Hill/Nichola Martin after home counties term for champagne and orange juice. Martin had been prot‚g‚e of Sandie Shaw's manager Eve Taylor; would-be Eurovision star aimed to build vocal group around herself, with ad jinglewriter Hill supplying material. 900 auditioned; end result in the image of ABBA of two boys/two girls: Mike Nolan (b 7 Dec. '54), Bobby G (b Robert Gubby, 23 Aug. '53), Jay Aston (b 4 May '61), Cheryl Baker (b 8 March '54). Impressed by both girls, Martin stood down as a performer. "Making Your Mind Up' won Eurovision '81 as planned, first UK win since similarly manufactured 2+2 Brotherhood of Man '76. They were lent some memorability by the gimmick of removing girls' skirts mid-song, borrowed from Martin's Eurovision hopefuls Rags, whose heat of Song For Europe was blacked out by a technicians' strike. Two subsequent singles in identical style breached UK top 20; fourth hit "Land Of Make Believe' performed pantomime style made no. 1 late '81; early '82 "My Camera Never Lies' also made it. Variations on theme with a cappella-styled "Now Those Days Are Gone', reggae-tinged "If You Can't Stand The Heat' were notably less successful; fall was arrested by importing material: cover of Romantics' '83 US hit "Talking In Your Sleep' restored top 40 UK status '84, the boys playing instruments in an image shift towards adulthood. Coach crash Dec. '84 in which Nolan was seriously injured preceded split in ranks: Aston, whose sexy image was at odds with cleancut appeal of group, quit mid-'85 for solo career; replaced after more mass auditions by lookalike Shelley Preston (b 14 May '64). (Aston's move delighted the tabloids with revelations about hanky-panky in group and resulted in lawsuits needed to free her from management contract.) Baker meanwhile became part-time TV show host; Gubby wrote/sang theme to BBC's Big Deal sitcom. "You And Your Eyes So Blue' took them back to charts mid-'85, also middle-of-the-road musical stance, outside writers (bizarrely incl. former King Crimson lyricist Pete Sinfield) collaborating with Hill.