Description
Easy Street Under The Glass
Label: Polydor 2383 444
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1977
Genre: Pop, Rock
Tracklist:
A1 Flying
A2 How Can You Take It So Hard
A3 Rely On You
A4 What Does The World Know
B1 Is This Real
B2 Look For The Sun
B3 Only A Fool
B4 Strange Change
B5 I See You
B6 Night Of The 11th
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals Peter Marsh
Drums, Congas, Percussion Richard Burgess
Electric Guitar [Lead], Acoustic Guitar, Vocals Ken Nicol
Producer Easy Street, Mike Stone
A brilliant blend of 70s pop/rock. Great tunes and production. These guys should have been huge. This is excellent material to just sit down and relax to. Especially Easy Street itself. There are some strong lyrics too. A band that never made it but nice music to sit and relax too. The lead track (“Flying”) is great. Notice the participation of future Blanket of Secrecy singer Peter Marsh.
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EASY STREET
In 1974, the duo of Ken Nicol and Peter Marsh released the album Nicol and Marshs Easy Street on U.K. Epic. A fine release, it showcased a sampling of the roots rock, ragtime and ballads that they would become masters of, and it featured the single “Midnight Cat”. Next, they were joined by New Zealander Richard Burgess and the trio renamed themselves after the LP. What followed were two excellent albums of tightly performed songs encompassing skiffle, ragtime, Southern boogie, West Coast harmony, symphonic pop and a whole lot more. The band wrapped it all up in immaculate compositions with a youthful spirit, and in Ken Nicol they had one of the eras greatest potential sex symbols. However, the band was roundly ignored by the music media, which makes the top 80 placing for “I’ve Been Lovin’ You” in the Cash Box Top 100 in the late Summer of 1976 a minor miracle.
When Burgess departed to join fusion (and later synth pop) band Landscape, Nicol and Marsh turned out an eponymous album together before splitting. Burgess had considerable success with Landscape in their New Romantic (a term hes infact credited for having coined) phase, and went on to do production work for Spandau Ballet, among others. Marsh briefly appeared in a New Wave band called Twist, and then did some recordings with Vangelis. Nicol appeared on Al Stewarts 24 Carrots in 1980 before laying low for many years. In the ’90s he joined Englands acclaimed Albion Band and resumed a solo career.
Under the Glass by Easystreet (Polydor, 1977). In addition to Marsh, Richard James Burgess and Ken Nicol, the Under the Glass album also extensively featured Kevin Savigar, a long-time musical associate of Rod Stewart. Marsh co-wrote the single track “Flying” (1977), with Nicol. Five tracks (“How Can You Take it So Hard”, “Rely On You”, “What Does The World Know”, “Strange Chance” and “The Night of the 11th”) are credited to Nicol, Marsh & Burgess), while two tracks are credited to Marsh and Burgess: “Is This Real” (Marsh, Burgess) and “I See You” (Burgess, Marsh). “Flying” was a released as a single (the B side, “Blame The Love”, didn’t appear on the album) and another single, “Love At Breakfast”, which didn’t feature on the album, was also released in 1977, with the track “Rely On You” featuring as the B side
Easy Street’ first appeared on the ITV talent show “NEW FACES” in 1976 , winning that heat and coming back to appear the following week.
Despite an excellent performance by the three piece combo , they were accused of dressing like “workman’s labourers” by one of the panel ! Aiming to please ( in a sarcy way ) , the band turned up in top hat and tales for there second performance !
They gained a contract with POLYDOR records , and cut several albums.
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