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Physical - article and inerviews

Postby drakula63 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:40 pm

I can recommend this HUGE article about the making of Olivia's 'Physical' album. It's very, very, very enlightening. I'll quote from it briefly...

Of the songs on Physical, "Silvery Rain" had the deepest roots, dating back to Farrar's early years in England. "When I went to England in 1970, I joined a group with Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch," he says. "Sometimes we'd go out as Marvin, Welch & Farrar and sometimes we'd go out as the Shadows. 'Silvery Rain' was a song that Hank wrote on the first album (Marvin, Welch & Farrar, 1971)." Released shortly after U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day, the song offered a sobering look at the toxic effects of pesticides.

A decade after the trio's original recording, plus original Shadows frontman Cliff Richard's own version on Columbia, Farrar recast "Silvery Rain" for Physical. "I wanted to go a little deeper into it," he says. "I've always loved that song, so it wasn't hard to talk Olivia into doing it. She's very much an environmentalist, so that song was perfect for her view of life."

Farrar masterfully modernized Marvin's tune for the 1980s, juxtaposing the brightness of his guitar and the crystalline tone of Newton-John's voice with a bass line that evoked a foreboding atmosphere. "That was the first Roland guitar synth that came out, and it was extremely unreliable," Farrar recalls. "David managed to make it sound like a really big bass sound." Holman also contributed an effect of his own in the second verse. "If you hear the wind, that's me blowing into a microphone," he says.


As I say, I can recommend this huge and in-depth article...

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