Chris Farlowe (born Islington, London, England, 13.Oct.1940) is is one of the great underrated British soul & blues influenced singers.
Farlowe's musical career has one starting point in the John Henry Skiffle Group and other similar bands. In 1962 the first single "Air Travel" was released without much success. Around 1963 or 1964 'The Thunderbirds' were formed and the band included the great guitarist Albert Lee and keyboardist Dave Greenslade. The band recorded five singles on the UK EMI subsidiary Columbia, but none made any impact on the charts. The singer was generally believed to be black.
Success came only after a move to the Immediate label. The label was started by The Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Accordingly Farlowe got to record a lot of Jagger/Richards compositions and some of his records were produced by Mick Jagger. Out of 11 singles five had covers of the Rolling Stones' songs on them.
The third single released on Immediate label "Out Of Time" made it to the top.
His music is mostly blues (which holds no interest for me, sorry to say) but there is some progressive material as well, namely this wonderful album which came out in 1970, and even the gatefold art is lovely.
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I loved him on Colosseum albums --- I also read something about his affinity for right wing politics in 70's, I hope I just misread something somewhere. Thanks for this, internet says there's also Paul Buckmaster playing on the album - that makes for an interesting pairing...
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