BLACKFOOT SUE: Standing in Road 7″ + Celestial plain. Hard Rock originators. Rare 1972 single. Check video. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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ORIGINAL die-cut picture sleeve = £3.50
Also available this same sing, without the die-cut picture sleeve for just £1.55. If you want one without the die-cut picture sleeve, please message us…..

one of the best pop/rock songs to come out of the 70s by far … just love it!

Tracklist
A Standing In The Road 3:54
B Celestial Plain 3:20

one of the best rock bands from the glam era. It’s the Messiah, taking me higher! Fantastic record. Close your eyes….can you hear ‘Slade’. if only they had made more at the time!

sounds like a perfect 70’s song ,not unlike Slade, but that was the sound of 70s rock. You listen to this and think… What the hell has happened to the UK charts?! Where are the musicians? Where are the 7″ singles? These so – called rock bands these days don’t know how to rock, i wish they would watch and learn from these and other bands of the seventies.

This is the band that later became OUTSIDE EDGE and released the Running Hot LP in 1986

OUTSIDE EDGE: Running Hot LP 1986 UK hard to find AOR. Check audio (4 whole songs)

Blackfoot Sue was a British pop / rock band, formed in 1970 by the twin brothers Tom and David Farmer, and Eddie Golga. A single released in August 1972, “Standing in the Road”, reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Lack of further tangible success left them labelled as one-hit wonders. However, they did have another record enter the UK Singles Chart. “Sing Don’t Speak” reached number 36 in December 1972. In November 1972, they appeared on the German television programme, Disco. According to Allmusic, “they were written off as a teen sensation and broke up in 1977”.
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The story of Standing In The Road:
As the story goes, one night David Farmer had a dream about a rhythm, one with strange whispering type chants in the background. David: “I got out of bed and put it on this antiquated tape recorder. Later we started jamming on the rhythm in the studio and Tom put down this bass pattern which sort of came out of nowhere. Eddie and Alan picked it up and for two and a half hours we jammed on the tune.

“At one time Alan got bored and picked up a biscuit tin and started banging it. Eddie said, “That sounds good!” and we all started hitting Coke bottles with sticks and that created the rhythm section in the middle. We never wrote down the words, they just came while we were jamming. Noel (Walker, their producer and manager) heard it, and said, “That is your first single.” It was like a scene from a movie.”

Though this happened in January 1972, and the band quickly got into the studio to lay their masterpiece down on tape, disaster struck – lead singer Tom Farmer got laryngitis, undoubtedly due to the combination of the bands punishing live schedule and his throaty style of singing, not helped by the fact he smoked. Twin brother (and non-smoking) David was depping live on lead vocals, night after night, but when it came to the recording, their producer was not satisfied with the drummers voice. It was some nerve-wracking months before Toms voice was back to normal and the track could be finished.

The band were convinced they had a hit on their hands – if they could only make sure it got heard!

The single was finally released in June 1972, and submitted to the BBC to be considered for inclusion on their playlist. The record was duly listened to by the Powers That Be, but no such commitment was forthcoming. Instead, the decision kept being deferred, week after week, much to the bands mounting frustration.

In the meantime, they took matters into their own hands. During their shows they would announce that they were about to play their new single, and that the record could be purchased direct from the band (records that they had craftily bought at music shops beforehand, and which were enthusiatically snapped up by the punters).

Finally, on one of their regular visits to a record store to pick up more copies
came the words they had been waiting to hear:
“Have you guys seen the charts this week?”

Standing In The Road was listed as the number one new entry.

And then came the clincher – they were invited to appear on Top Of The Pops.
Sales of the single leapt 400% the week that they appeared on the show,
and the song was on its way up the charts at long last.

Standing In The Road went on to hit #4 in Britain,
selling 275,000 copies worldwide,
and was the #70 best-selling single of 1972.