Stranger comes to town

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Stranger comes to town
Steve Harley's studio album

Publication
(s)

May 3, 2010

Label (s) Comeuppance

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

49:29

occupation

production

Steve Harley

Studio (s)

Leeders Farm Residential Studios (Wymondham, Norfolk)

chronology
The Quality of Mercy
(2005) 		Stranger comes to town -

Stranger Comes to Town (Engl. Stranger comes to town ) is the eleventh studio album by Steve Harley .

The music album was recorded in the east county of Norfolk in the minor town of Wymondham. The album, which was released as the fifth album under the solo name Steve Harley , Harley did not record with the band Cockney Rebel , but with his tour band. The members of this band also wrote along with the songs.

On the tenth and final track of the album 2,000 Years From Now , ten and eleven year old school children from Spooner Row Primary School sang along with the recordings . According to Harley, he was in the studio and wanted children to sing along to the song, as the song was about the future of the planet. The students were there within three hours because the school building was in the immediate vicinity. Two hours later the recordings were successfully finished.

Track list

  1. Faith & Virtue (Steve Harley, Barrie Wickens) - 4:49
  2. Take The Men & The Horses Away (Harley, Wickens, James Lascelles, Lincoln Anderson, Stuart Elliott) - 4:10
  3. For sale. Baby shoes. Never Worn. (Harley) - 4:59
  4. Stranger Comes To Town (Harley) - 4:11
  5. This Old Man (Harley) - 5:28
  6. True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnson) - 3:45
  7. No Bleeding Hearts (Harley) - 7:04
  8. Blinded With Tears (Harley, Jim Cregan) - 5:01
  9. Before They Crash The Universe (Harley) - 4:30
  10. 2,000 Years From Now (Harley, Robbie Gladwell) - 5:40

Chart successes

year Chart position
2010 UK chart albums 187

reception

The album received largely positive reviews. Martin Hutchinson of The Bolton News wrote that the album would show Steve Harley at his best. Andrew Thomas of the Lancashire Telegraph found the album to be a striking set of three or four outstanding songs. In addition, the album was welcome and surprisingly good for him. The song Before They Crash The Universe is similar to Bruce Springsteen's style of music. Jimmy Rock from the website www.jimmyrock.de even describes the album as a concept album about believing in the good, a stranger who comes and sees all the bad. He (the stranger) tries to put pressure on the good in people and fails in the end because the person is too blind to see the good.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.harleyfanzone.com, accessed on December 1, 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harleyfanzone.com
  2. ↑ BBC News article Steve Harley records with Wymondham school children ; accessed on June 22, 2010
  3. ^ CD review of the daily newspaper The Bolton News ; accessed on June 21, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.theboltonnews.co.uk  
  4. ^ CD review of the Lancashire Telegraph on the official Steve Harley website; accessed on June 21, 2010
  5. ↑ CD review at www.jimmyrock.de ; accessed on October 25, 2010

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