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Thanks a lot rs4951 for this insight information on Rod Stewart, it is amazing but discouraging. Anyway, with Chris it is even worse - nothing done, as compared to at least something done on Rod's old stuff, but Stewart is objectively more widely know and better selling artist than Chris. I only hope that Warner look at Phil Collins successful reissues project, not Rod Stewart's flop done by them.rs4951 wrote: ↑04 Aug 2018, 11:50I won't hold my breath....Warner commissioned Rhino records to do a major project on Rod Stewart's catalogue back in late 2007 ( a few years too late) and only about half came out and what did was so poorly promoted that it bombed...thus scuppering the rest of the planned releases. Incidentally, one release that did make it was an album that recorded in 1992 that was shelved until the 2009 release...it was the first album that contained his cover of Windy Town. There were compilations of unreleased material, collections of b sides and remixes and three deluxe editions of big selling albums plus some live stuff...all ready to go but sitting in the vault still... The music industry is not a fast acting or logical beast.
Thanks a lot once again for your insight knowledge on Rod Stewart, I only knew of 2 versions, the album mix and the piano one. Shall check the alternate mix shortly.
Chris has written 8 out of 10 songs on Sarah's album. The 2nd track, Get On with the Working Day, its name can be seen on the studio chalkboard in Stony Road video. Chris simply gifted the song to Sarah instead of including it on Dancing Down the Stony Road album with his own vocals (or was it an instrumental?) Overall, the whole album The Sparrow sounds quite like an album by Chris but with Sarah's vocals since Chris wrote all but 2 songs on the album and it is himself and his band accompanying Sarah. So strange that it is such a little known fact...ace of hearts wrote: ↑08 Aug 2018, 11:49I guess on the theme of other singers singing Chris's songs, you have a full album of Sarah randle 'The Sparrow' which chris has since put out some of his own versions.
andrew fischer wrote: ↑06 Aug 2018, 09:31Once Warner / Rhino got the go ahead to do Rod's catalogue ( I do not know how long that took):rs4951 wrote: ↑04 Aug 2018, 11:50 For Anneke's question, I do not think we may expect any news on an actual release of any old material, since it definitely takes too long to negotiate and the talks definitely have just started. I hope the things come quicker than I reasonably expect them to happen, who knows...
They approached producer Andy Zax in Autumn 2007. He spent months gathering tapes from storage ( 5000 tapes), then a few months working through them...it was Nov 2008 before a new Best of came out with one vault song, March and June 2009 for 3 deluxe albums, Sept 2009 for a four cd set of vault material, Jan 2010 for the Lost album...then it all stopped until 2014 when a live set came out...and nothing since then despite the rest being ready...
...this is a slow process and the rate at which cd sales are falling makes it less and less viable to release. The live set came out in a fairly cheap package, four years after it was planned to appear in a lavish boxset..
At this stage, I would gladly take download only releases...with respect to Chris, you would think that Rod Stewart could shift more units -but not enough to make Rhino release what they have..