August 27th
Take the kids to the padded indoor adventure park, snakes and ladders, in the grounds of Syon park. The phone rings just after we can back home for lunch. It’s Chris Porter. Can I spare an hour or so this afternoon?
Regular readers will know that I recently contributed some multi tracked backing vocals to Sir Cliff Richards’s new album. I did all this here at Silesia Sound of course and just took the finished overdubs down to the studio. Sir Cliff wanted some more vocals on one of the verses. So I drive down and am greeted by a very, pleasant and affable Cliff. He suggests that we sing these new parts together.
Now whilst I’m not a fan of his particular oeuvre, the fact is that at the age of 5 or so, I did mime along in front of the mirror to Cliff and the Shadows. Here I am, all these years later, in a small vocal booth standing next to, and singing with, his Cliffness. Words cannot not express just how surreal an experience this was.
During a gap, due to computer rebooting, Cliff chats away. When they called me earlier I was in the middle of watching ’Charlie and the chocolate factory’ with Django for the 150th time since we bought it. Cliff asks about the kids and we get on the subject of the forthcoming holiday. In response to the question ‘where are you going?’ I tell him that we are going to stay at Mel Collin’s Villa in Minorca. He immediately remembers Mel and says what a great solo he played on ‘Carrie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’.
Whilst recounting this tale to Danny Thompson later, he reminds me that he himself played bass on ‘Congratulations’. Suddenly the whole of the holiday trip has a bizarre Cliff Richard/King Crimson synergy.
In the evening I start work again and finish at 3:00 in the morning once more. The lack of sleep is giving all these events a strange dream like quality. This week end can’t get any odder surely?
Take the kids to the padded indoor adventure park, snakes and ladders, in the grounds of Syon park. The phone rings just after we can back home for lunch. It’s Chris Porter. Can I spare an hour or so this afternoon?
Regular readers will know that I recently contributed some multi tracked backing vocals to Sir Cliff Richards’s new album. I did all this here at Silesia Sound of course and just took the finished overdubs down to the studio. Sir Cliff wanted some more vocals on one of the verses. So I drive down and am greeted by a very, pleasant and affable Cliff. He suggests that we sing these new parts together.
Now whilst I’m not a fan of his particular oeuvre, the fact is that at the age of 5 or so, I did mime along in front of the mirror to Cliff and the Shadows. Here I am, all these years later, in a small vocal booth standing next to, and singing with, his Cliffness. Words cannot not express just how surreal an experience this was.
During a gap, due to computer rebooting, Cliff chats away. When they called me earlier I was in the middle of watching ’Charlie and the chocolate factory’ with Django for the 150th time since we bought it. Cliff asks about the kids and we get on the subject of the forthcoming holiday. In response to the question ‘where are you going?’ I tell him that we are going to stay at Mel Collin’s Villa in Minorca. He immediately remembers Mel and says what a great solo he played on ‘Carrie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’.
Whilst recounting this tale to Danny Thompson later, he reminds me that he himself played bass on ‘Congratulations’. Suddenly the whole of the holiday trip has a bizarre Cliff Richard/King Crimson synergy.
In the evening I start work again and finish at 3:00 in the morning once more. The lack of sleep is giving all these events a strange dream like quality. This week end can’t get any odder surely?
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