City Boy

[Progbear]

Love me the City Boy. I remember hearing them live on WNEW-FM in NYC. After the show, the DJ kept playing their live take of Dear Jean as the guitarist incorporated bits of Purple Haze, Day Tripper & others. Incredibly tight live, by the way!

Wow, that would be something to hear! I would love to have seen them live, or at least had a live album.

[Jacob Holm-Lupo]

I'm on record as a huge fan. Probably one of the most unfairly underrated bands in rock history. Fantastic songwriting, chops and not least production. A huge inspiration for both my bands. I tend to like other things Mike Slamer has been involved with too, even if he took a more traditional AOR route after City Boy.

J.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Somewhere on the internet, 3RDegree got compared to them. I inspected their Anthology and then got every freakin' album. All great!

[Iris]

Lol Mason has died of a heart attack at his home in Birmingham, at the age of sixty nine.

[moecurlythanu]

^ Sad news.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Sad news indeed


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[everyday]

Just saw this - dreadful news.

[TheH]

Mike Slamer is a hell of a guitarist

[jlneudorf]

Very sad news. RIP.

[wilcox660]

So sad. Much love.

Lol Mason has died of a heart attack at his home in Birmingham, at the age of sixty nine.

[everyday]

Just found that Max Thomas is crowdfunding to get enough to make an 8th album - although only Roy Ward of the other members has shown any interest in joining in and only £200 has been raised in 8 months out of a target of £10000. The page is https://www.gofundme.com/f/6ndeckg

[Iris]

There are albums that leave an indelible mark on us. For me one of those is Young Men Gone West by City Boy. I played it to death at the time. I thought there wasn't a weak track on it and several (Bordello Night, She's Got Style, Millionaire, the title track) that were simply excellent. Listening to it again this morning I can see why it made such a big impression on me - inventive, melodic, superior prog-pop. 10cc would have thought they'd done a good job if it had come out of Strawberry Studios.