IT'S RAINING AGAIN / BONNIE

After the tour for their "Breakfast in America" album from 1979, the band took a long time to rest. It seems that the big success of that album took them by surprise, and like other bands, they had a hard time thinking how to keep that success for their next album. The recording of that album also brought some problems and frictions inside the band. While all the members of the band lived in California, Roger Hodgson lived in a different city which was a bit far from the city on which the other members lived. This maybe brought even more problems between them, with Hodgson having his own recording studio in his house, and Rick Davies also having his own recording studio in his house. Their next album, "Famous last words", was recorded using both recording studios during a long time before being finally released in late 1982. During that time, Hodgson decided to leave the band, and he said that to the other members of the band. So, that album was recorded having in mind that Hodgson was going to leave the band after their tour for the "Famous last words" album in 1983.

Both songs from this single were taken from the "Famous last words" album.

"It's Raining Again", composed and sung by Hodgson, in the A-Side of this single, is a very good Pop Rock song, and it was the last Hit Single that the band had with Hodgson. It maybe is a bit "sweet" for my taste, but good anyway, using some melodica playing. If I remember well, Davies played that melodica solo in the album and in concert. This song also has a video which I don't like very much.

"Bonnie", composed and sung by Davies, is in the Side "B" of this single. It is one of my favorite songs from this album, with some funny lyrics. It has very good arrangements. This song has not wind instruments playing. So John Helliwell (who is also credited in the album for playing keyboards) maybe played some of the keyboards in this song.