Pete Atkin

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   Great news for any fellow Atkin-lovers out there, Demon are releasing all Pete's seventies stuff with bonus tracks, demos and rarities.

His classic albums Beware of the Beautiful Stranger and Driving Through Mythical America hit the shops this month; A King At Nightfall, The Road of Silk, Secret Drinker and Live Libel to follow in March.

If you haven't sampled Atkin before, try the 1974 single version of I See The Joker, cutting guitars, great orchestration and a wonderful delivery by Pete of Clive James' lyrics on this chilling song of rampant paranoia.

"...to know he'll come but not to know the way, to know he'll make his play but not know how, is he somewhere out there setting up the gun, is this headache from his crosswires on my brow?"

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AlanD Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 28 2008 Location: Portsmouth Status: Offline Points: 135	Topic: Pete Atkin Posted: February 13 2009 at 06:54
	Great news for any fellow Atkin-lovers out there, Demon are releasing all Pete's seventies stuff with bonus tracks, demos and rarities. His classic albums Beware of the Beautiful Stranger and Driving Through Mythical America hit the shops this month; A King At Nightfall, The Road of Silk, Secret Drinker and Live Libel to follow in March. If you haven't sampled Atkin before, try the 1974 single version of I See The Joker, cutting guitars, great orchestration and a wonderful delivery by Pete of Clive James' lyrics on this chilling song of rampant paranoia. "...to know he'll come but not to know the way, to know he'll make his play but not know how, is he somewhere out there setting up the gun, is this headache from his crosswires on my brow?"
	AlanD

farflung Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 04 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 40	Posted: April 30 2009 at 07:30
	Got the Road of Silk recently - very mellow but don;t know if I;d place it in the prog category. Anothr subject for a poll would be 70s singer songwriters who have some interesting prog elements - John Martyn, Nick Drake, Keith Christmas, Cat Stevens, Al Stewart eyc. I'd probably put Atkin among that lot

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818	Posted: May 02 2009 at 15:58
	Saw him on tour in the 70's before he retired to become a BBC radio producer. Also found a couple of his LPs very cheap in a dumper bin in the early 80's. Played a couple of tracks off them on the radio in the past, but they do sound somewhat dated. Clive James at the time got rather arrogant wrt to the quality of lyrics he was writing, comparing himself with some of the 30's greats, e.g. Porter, Berlin
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