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Smokie

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Very Rare Original UK LP released  on Wag Records in 1989.

Originally formed in Yorkshire,  England in 1966, Smokie hit the British pop charts several times during the late  '70s with updated psychedelic pop, influenced by the band's stay on Mickie  Most's Rak Records as well as the writers of most of the band's hit material,  Rak's Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Vocalist Chris Norman, bassist Terry Utley,  guitarist Alan Silson, and drummer Ron Kelly had played in the Elizabethans, but  formed the band Kindness in 1970. The quartet recorded many singles during the  late '60s and early '70s, but failed to show any chart activity. By 1973, Kelly  had left the band and was replaced by Pete Spencer. In 1975, the band, signed to  Rak Records; billed as Smokey, they hit number three in the U.K. with "If You  Think You Know How to Love Me." After another Top Ten hit, "Don't Play Your Rock  'n' Roll to Me," Smokey became Smokie; in 1976, the group scored with three Top  20 hits, including the number five "Living Next Door to Alice." Smokie hit  number five both in 1977 ("It's Your Life") and 1978 ("Oh Carol"), but the  band's chart run ended in early 1980, and following 1982's Midnight Delight,  they disbanded. Both Spencer and Norman continued to work at Rak during the  '80s, writing hits for several groups; they re-formed Smokie in 1986,  resurfacing with the LP My Heart Is True. Two more albums, All Fired Up and  Greatest Hits Live, followed, with the group remaining active throughout the  '90s, issuing new material -- including 1992's Chasing Shadows and 1995's The  World and Elsewhere -- as well as a number of hits collections
 

Track Listing

Side One

1 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2 Falling Apart
3 Think About The Night
4 Sometimes You Cry
5 Love Take Me Away (Sleeping Beauty)

Side Two

1 Moving Mountains
2 Young Hearts
3 Stop Rewind
4 Angelina
5 Northern Soul
 

 

Released on Wag Records in 1989

Catalogue Number WAG LP2

Record is in Ex + condition

Sleeve is in Ex + condition

 

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