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January 1978 saw the release of love is
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like oxygen a song for which Andy Scott
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received an Ivor Novello nomination the
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avant-garde style of the song contrasts
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to the sweet sound of the past
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I can't shake up my city blues
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everywhere - now
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the lovers that oxygen thing the the
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whole thing surrounding it we had
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basically been to the chateau in France
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to record the album we come back to
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London to do some finishings and
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somebody there was a song that we've
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been tinkering with my old sound
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engineer a guy called Trevor I had been
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tinkering with this thing on a piano and
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I'd been putting some guitar stuff to it
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and I said to him I think I can do
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something with this you know so I
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recorded me and him just playing the
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various bits of love is the oxygen of
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which there were more parts than this so
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it needed some editing down because he
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was being a little bit wreck man and off
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with what he wanted it you know it's
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like a bit of a symphony going on in his
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head you know and I was saying well that
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bit that bit and that bit those are the
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three main character bits and we got him
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a producer arranger involved a guy
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called Jeff Wesley who I don't think
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Mick and Steve took took two very well
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he was a bit austere and you know aloof
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you know knew his onions and knew his
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classical composition you know spacings
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and you know the way you can play an A
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in the bass but have a b-flat up here
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you know something like that some
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something very obscure you know but I
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liked his ideas a lot and when we
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started to bounce someone heard this
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basis of love is like oxygen and the
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other guys they probably didn't like
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that I got Jeff Wesley involved to do an
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arrangement for love is that oxygen this
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guy has got a classically trained mind
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so he's putting it in a classical
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environment not in a rock band
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environment where the bass follows the
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notes of the chords so it's all all over
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the place so musically we're already
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into a different area than we've ever
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been before I I loved it I thought it
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was absolutely
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fantastic and I got I virtually got the
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song finished in my head by the time we
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done the backing track and we had a
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weekend off and I went home and on the
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Monday when I came back I played them
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love is like oxygen with all the lyrics
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and all the melody and all the words and
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they were like wow so I then basically
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it's just started to transfer what I'd
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done at home on to the multitrack
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because there was no point in you know
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re-recording all of it we just stuck
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some of it across then but Brian had to
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sing something
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so the verses were were possible
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somebody got him in early one morning
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and he went in there and within two or
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three takes he'd done the verses of
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lovers laughs and it was absolutely
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brilliant when you've got a song like
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lovers the oxygen the breaks into the
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top ten in every country virtually in
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the world you know you've got a big hit
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you know and that's what happened with
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Fox on the run and that's what happened
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with love is that oxygen I came up with
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love is like oxygen which was a great
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record and and I thought to myself ah
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well you know maybe I was wrong and
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maybe they can move on from there but
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they didn't and of course it was after
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that point that the band really started
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to get into chaos and and you know Brian
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had leavin and whatever love is like
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oxygen peaked in the charts at number
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nine and gave the band hope of
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rekindling their previous success
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however such were Brian's alcohol
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problems that he began to find it
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increasingly difficult to fulfill his
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role as lead singer of the band once the
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lead singer starts to be unreliable and
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show up drunk and then and and whatever
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and he really I was terribly fond of
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Brian I liked him very very much as a
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person but the drink did get ahold of
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him Brian was a highly insecure man and
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in a way that was part of his appeal as
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a person because he was vulnerable he
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you know he was a real
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nice guy and it was part of his appeal
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but the drink got a hold of that I mean
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part of sweet folklore is that he was
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taken into hospital one night and has
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something like nine cardiac arrests and
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survived pretty strong guy and of course
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that contributed a huge amount and bit
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by bit he became a shadow of the garden
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he was so the band couldn't have gone on
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with him ultimately anyway even though
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we were aware that things weren't right
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you still couldn't tell us that the best
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thing that could happen is the brine
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should leave the band we were still not
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at that stage until I guess it had got
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to that point where more and more Steve
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and myself was singing ensuite albums
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because he never showed up at the studio
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or when he did he was a bit worse for
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wear from either the night before or
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what had happened this lunchtime and the
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frustrations that the vine within your
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realizing that you're not getting the
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best out of everything because he's the
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lead singer and it should be his voice
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on this particular track for example on
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love is like oxygen I son the whole all
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the parts in the chorus because I it was
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quick quicker and easier for me to just
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do it
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Brian sang the verse um it's it's it's
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what happens in recording it you know as
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I said it's it's what you hear on
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records it's not always the person that
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you think it is that singing singing all
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the parts because we were all very
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malleable and interchangeable without
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you know with our vocal ranges I think
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that you do yourself no favors when in
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front of the management team and in
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front of 20,000 people in Alabama you go
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onstage absolutely wrecked and you can't
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even start the first song and this is
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what happened to Brian and our manager
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pulled him off the stage when we
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finished as the set as a three-piece
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band which we had done a couple of times
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previously I think that was the big
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of the end for everything everybody
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where unless this can be fixed now he
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has to go there was a um we pulled out a
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few American dates which I wasn't
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pleased about because it was felt that
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we needed to get ourselves back together
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write some new material and see how it
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was going to work out with Brian it was
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all kind of coming to a head where I
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basically said well I remember me and
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Steve were basically at that point of he
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must go on and I understood Mick's stand
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100% you know we've been together this
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long we can work this out and and I said
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well I can't work it out with him you
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know if somebody else has to do it you
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know and we even tried different people
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going in the studio to record his voice
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not me and he still wasn't you know what
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wasn't getting there and the best
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decision was that this is the time where
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there are things that you can do but not
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with us and well I was hoping it was
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going to get too nasty but you know I
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did did for a moment or two but I think
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he probably saw the I've since spoken to
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his his then-wife you know Marilyn and
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she's um you know she said to me that at
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that time you know it was it was it was
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extremely difficult to you know to get a
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full focus on what was going on but now
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you've had time to think about it and
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look back at it that was the only
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decision that could be made it was
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probably not the right decision because
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we had three more albums in us it was
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never going to be quite the same
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once Brian had gone it was better
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musically and it was better from a band
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point of view but we were never going to
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have the same impact again because we
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were just a damn good Bend rather than a
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band with the oddball characters here
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and they're all doing their you know all
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we've done is we've knuckled ourselves
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down into becoming a good hard-working
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rock band rather than the band that's
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got the
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if uh the guy who's going to hit the
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press every you know every other week
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Brian Conley officially left the band in
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February 1979 the band continued as a
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three-piece sharing the vocals but they
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were never to enjoy the same amount of
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success as they had previously in 1982
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following the release of three
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unsuccessful albums levelheaded cut
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above the rest and identity crisis the
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suite officially split during the 80s
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and 90s
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Brian Connolly toured extensively with
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various lineups on the 9th of February
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1997 Brian Connolly tragically passed
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away at the age of 52 from a suspected
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stroke in heart attack
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Micke Tucker sadly lost his long fight
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against leukemia on Valentine's Day 2002
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aged 54 Andy Scott still tours today
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with his band AAS sweet and Steve priest
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now lives in America
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this is a band that were successful on a
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worldwide basis they had hits everywhere
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including America where a lot of acts
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around that time didn't and they were
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massively successful and I think made
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one or two records that were landmark
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records and I remember when Brian died
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and they did a Top of the Pops too
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special on him and Johnny Walker called
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him the Godfather of Glan and in a way
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that in itself says how much of an
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impact they had
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five words to describe sweet talented
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energetic excessive very difficult
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arrogant would be one single-minded
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would be another definitely talented
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sometimes difficult but when there was
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women around always affable
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