Hard Times (Peter Skellern album) explained

Hard Times
Type:Studio
Artist:Peter Skellern
Cover:Peter+Skellern_Hard+Times+Album.jpg
Released:1975
Genre:Pop
Label:Island
Producer:Meyer Shagaloff
Prev Title:Hold On to Love
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Kissing in the Cactus
Next Year:1977

Hard Times is the fifth album by singer, songwriter and pianist Peter Skellern (1947 - 2017)[1]) released in 1975 on the Island Records label. Despite much radio airplay, "Hard Times" failed as a single and the LP slipped into decades of obscurity. As a result of this commercial failure, Skellern changed record companies again, signing with Phonogram under their Mercury subsidiary and immediately enjoying a minor hit with a cover of "Love Is the Sweetest Thing".[2] This album has now been officially re-issued on CD by Mint Audio Records on the 3 cd set, The Complete Island & Mercury Recordings.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Skellern except "Make Love, Not War" written by John Burrows, John Harding and Peter Skellern.

Side 1

  1. "Hard Times”
  2. "I Guess You Wish You’d Gone Home"
  3. "Baby What a Fool I’ve Been”
  4. "Down in the Cellar"
  5. ”Goodbye, America Keep You Well”

Side 2

  1. "Snake Bite"
  2. "Make Love, Not War” (From the musical revue Loud Reports)
  3. "A Capella”
  4. "Let’s Sleep Late"
  5. "And Then You’ll Fall"

Personnel

Production

Notes and References

  1. allmusic.com/artist/peter-skellern-mn0000687269/biography retrieved 16/01/2014
  2. skellernhardtimes.blogspot.co.uk/

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