10. Cliff RichardI’m Nearly Famous
I’m thinking a lot about both of my parents during this. They were both very ill with Coronavirus, and my dad recently passed away.
My parents weren’t really into music, except that everyone bought LPs then because, well, you just did. There was nothing unusual about their taste; The Beatles, Sky and Elkie Brooks for my Dad; Cliff for my mum. A few years back, they wanted to be rid of their records; they had no use for them.
“Don’t you want them replaced? Get them on CD?”
“No, we don’t need them.”
So now I’m the custodian of all these records.
There is nothing wrong with Cliff Richard. Well, he’s a Tory, but apart from that, I will fight you. I’m Nearly Famous kicks off what I like to call ‘The Magnificent Seven’ series of albums that ends with Now You See Me, Now You Don’t. Together these behemoths of art redefine the parameters of music and leave a wake of destruction in their path. He can sing in tune AND in time. He is brilliant.
There is something so welcoming about the sound of these records. It’s a period of high-end ‘fabuloso’ production, where everything is exquisite and perfectly placed. These albums sound like Patrick Bateman’s apartment in American Psycho.
This album includes ‘Miss You Nights’. There are better songs, but humans haven’t heard them.
