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Badfinger: Airwaves

On March 25, 1979, “Elektra” label released “Airwaves”, the eighth Badfinger studio album. It was recorded October – December 1978, in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Malloy.

Personnel:

  • Tom Evans – lead and backing vocals, bass 
  • Joey Molland – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, electric piano
  • Joe Tansin – lead, co-lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards
  • Rick Salon – slide guitar 
  • Harry Pulver, Jr. – piano
  • Scott Greer – piano
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano, Hammond organ
  • Duane Hitchings – synthesizer, piano
  • Tom Lecher – bass
  • Ken Harck – drums, cardboard box, tom-toms 
  • Andy Newmark – drums
  • Steve Foreman – drums, percussion 
  • Bob Millea – drums
  • Peter Clark – “leg, hands and feet”
  • Barry Sperti – saxophone
  • David Malloy – backing vocals
  • Dean Ford – backing vocals
  • David Campbell – string arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Airwaves – Tom Evans, Joey Molland
  2. Look Out California – Tom Evans
  3. Lost Inside Your Love – Tom Evans
  4. Love Is Gonna Come at Last – Joey Molland
  5. Sympathy – Joe Tansin
  6. The Winner – Joe Tansin
  7. The Dreamer – Joey Molland
  8. Come Down Hard – Joey Molland
  9. Sail Away – Tom Evans

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe: The Most Incredible Thing

On March 14, 2011, “Parlaphone” label released “The Most Incredible Thing”, album by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. It featured music for the 2011 ballet of same name, based on 1870 fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, and was produced by Sven Helbig, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Wrocław Score Orchestra was recorded by “Teldex Studio Berlin” in the “Concert Hall of Polish Radio” in Wrocław, Poland

Personnel:

  • Neil Tenant – performer
  • Chris Lowe– performer, programming
  • Bartek Bober – concertmaster
  • Joris Bartsch Buhle – contractor
  • Pete Gleadall – programming
  • Andreas Gundlach – piano
  • Sven Helbig– orchestrations
  • Dominic Wheeler – Wrocław Score Orchestra conductor
  • Jan-Peter Klöpfel – copyist
  • Bob Kraushaar– mixing
  • Tobias Lehmann – sound engineer, editing
  • Tom Russbüldt – Pro Toolsengineer
  • Dietrich Zöllner – copyist

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

Act One

  1. Prologue
  2. The Grind
  3. The Challenge
  4. Help Me
  5. Risk
  6. Physical Jerks
  7. The Competition
  8. The Meeting” – 2:52

Act Two

  1. The Clock 1/2/3
  2. The Clock 4/5/6
  3. The Clock 7/8/9
  4. The Clock 10/11/12
  5. The Winner
  6. Destruction

Act Three

  1. Back to the Grind
  2. The Miracle – Ceremony
  3. The Miracle – Revolution
  4. The Miracle – Resurrection
  5. The Miracle – Colour and Light
  6. The Miracle – The Meeting (Reprise)
  7. The Wedding