| ... to prove that this album is going through a
deevolution phase, Disky rereleased the original European one
in late 1997.
- Wesley Chun |
From the Japanese import liner notes (translated from Japanese)...
- This album was the (only) recording by APP plus ex-Camel keyboard
player Peter Bardens, produced by
Alan Parsons.
- This album was recorded between 83/12 and 84/3 at Abbey Road Studios,
London, and released in 84/8 in UK. This album had not previously been
released before in Japan.
- This album is supposed to have been made just after the recording
for
Ammonia Avenue
(released 84/2 in UK), and the preparation was
done simultaneously with the work for AA.
- Eric Woolfson worked as a
"coordinator," i.e. he recruited
Ian,
David (both are members from
ToMai),
and Stuart from APP, and
Pete from Camel.
Eric was introduced to
Peter by Andrew Latimer(sp?), the
guitarist for Camel. He chose
Colin Blunstone (ex-Zombies) as a
vocalist. He named the band after the restaurant he frequented,
not after the poet John Keats.
- On
Peter Bardens:
He was a member of Shotgun Express (Rod Stewart
was a member of this band) in the 60s. In 1972, he and Andrew and
others formed Camel. The album Snow Goose released in 1975 was a
masterpiece. In 1978, after Camel released Breathless, he left
the band. In 1979, he released Heart to Heart (this was his third solo
album). In 1983 he produced Touch, a single by
Colin Blunstone.
Mel Collins plays saxophone on the
B-side of the single. After Keats,
he released Seen One Earth in 1987 on the Cinema Label, and in 1993,
Further Than You Know (his 7th solo album) from Miramar.
- Richard Cottle
plays sax and keyboards as a "guest player,"
and continues from this point as a tenured APP-member, starting
from
Vulture Culture.
- For track 4
(Walking on Ice) lead vocal is
David Paton.
Peter Bardens
plays Space Invaders here.
- Track 7
(Turn Your Head Around)
was released as a single, but never went into charts.
- This CD is based on the original EMI release. The track order on the
US LP version is different
(1,2,3,4,5,7,6,"Give It Up",9,10).
Give It Up was written by
Ian Bairnson.
- The liner notes were prepared (in Japanese) by Michikazu Kosuga
(or Kosuge) on 94/01/21. Kosuga's editorial notes:
- This album is best described as "the Alan Parsons Project meets Camel."
- Though made without
Eric Woolfson,
the essence of his music is heard on this album, and also on
Try Anything Once.
- A Peter Bardens
fan who knew his delicate style on Camel albums
may be astonished by the introduction to 1 in 'common pop' style,
like Runaway by Bon Jovi.
- This "common pop" style is inherited to
Somebody Out There (on
Vulture Culture),
and VC throughout.
Alan and
Eric might have regarded Keats
as a 'guinea pig' for APP, who began recording VC on 84/5, just
two months after the release of this album with Keats minus
Peter plus
Lenny Zakatek and
Chris Rainbow.
- This album has some excellent tracks like 3 and 4.
- There should have been more tracks sung by
David Paton.
- Tateisi Yuka |
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