On Friday I promised Davy H that my next post would be my number 1 lost classic from the 80’s so here it is. Can it possibly live up to such hype? You decide.
mp3: Fiat Lux - Blue Emotion
Fiat Lux were a band from 1982 to 1985 whose members were David P Crickmore, Steve Wright and Ian Nelson (brother of Bill Nelson). They released six singles and one mini album called Hired History.
Two of their singles were minor UK hits with Secrets reaching number 65 and Blue Emotion peaking at 59.
Blue Emotion, their 4th single, has long been my favourite “forgotten” single of the 80’s. If you haven’t heard it before I think it is in the same vein as The Cure’s The Walk and New Order’s Thieves Like Us without particularly sounding like either of them but you get the idea, they wouldn’t sound out of place on the same CD compilation.
You would have thought that by now somebody would have gathered Hired History and all the singles and b-sides and produced a definitive retrospective CD of this great band but it hasn’t happened yet. Needless to say if it ever does I thoroughly recommend it and if I’m still blogging I’ll give it a plug.
Sadly, Ian Nelson died on 23rd April 2006, his 50th birthday. I was fortunate enough to see Ian Nelson once playing keyboards and saxophone for Bill Nelson’s Red Noise back in 1979. You can also hear his contribution on several Be-Bop Deluxe songs, perhaps most memorably the sax solo on Ships In The Night.
For more information on the band take a look at the fan website http://www.hiredhistory.co.uk/the_band.htm
Fiat Lux were a band from 1982 to 1985 whose members were David P Crickmore, Steve Wright and Ian Nelson (brother of Bill Nelson). They released six singles and one mini album called Hired History.
Two of their singles were minor UK hits with Secrets reaching number 65 and Blue Emotion peaking at 59.
Blue Emotion, their 4th single, has long been my favourite “forgotten” single of the 80’s. If you haven’t heard it before I think it is in the same vein as The Cure’s The Walk and New Order’s Thieves Like Us without particularly sounding like either of them but you get the idea, they wouldn’t sound out of place on the same CD compilation.
You would have thought that by now somebody would have gathered Hired History and all the singles and b-sides and produced a definitive retrospective CD of this great band but it hasn’t happened yet. Needless to say if it ever does I thoroughly recommend it and if I’m still blogging I’ll give it a plug.
Sadly, Ian Nelson died on 23rd April 2006, his 50th birthday. I was fortunate enough to see Ian Nelson once playing keyboards and saxophone for Bill Nelson’s Red Noise back in 1979. You can also hear his contribution on several Be-Bop Deluxe songs, perhaps most memorably the sax solo on Ships In The Night.
For more information on the band take a look at the fan website http://www.hiredhistory.co.uk/the_band.htm
Finally, here is a performance of Blue Emotion from a European TV show. Apparently, this single was top 10 in some more enlightened countries in Europe (and New Zealand).
