Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious side

showing a more serious side to the group’s lyricism

and you’re about right with how to summarize a group who’ve released ten singles

I’ve got this idea I thought might be good for you…” A text from Paul Weller was the only inspiration Steve Pilgrim needed to finish the writing of his muchanticipated sixth album ‘Beautiful Blue’

It opened the doors to stadium shows and appearances at some of the biggest and most diverse festivals in the world

and a #1 from Jimmy Nail with ‘Ain’t No Doubt’

Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious sideSkylarking: XTCs most commercially successful album was, for many years, also its most mythical with tales of lost multi track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented & an Anglophile super producer that turned rather imperfect