GANGSTERS

Gangsters is an instrumental written by Dave Greenslade for the BBC TV series of the same name which began life as an edition of Play for Today in 1975. The tune was also included on the Greenslade album Time and Tide in the same year, and in 1976 it was released as a single. (There is also a version with vocals by Chris Farlowe that was used in the third series).

The b-side of the single is a non-album track called Rubber Face & Lonely Eyes. This is also an instrumental, and though not as strong as Gangsters itself, works very well as a partner track. It is a very rare track, appearing on CD for the first time as a bonus track on the 2019 Esoteric Recordings re-issue of Time and Tide that came out only last week. In the CD booklet, it is explained that Rubber Face & Lonely Eyes too was done for the Gangsters series.