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AUDIO: Leeds artist's new album - after 38 year break
You've heard of the difficult second album, but how's this for a tricky third?
Leeds singer songwriter Beau is finally set to release his latest LP after a break of 38 YEARS.
Beau – real name Trevor Midgley – was a rising star in the late 60s and early 70s and was the first artist signed to DJ John Peel's cult Dandelion label.
He scored a number one hit in the Lebanon with his debut single 1917 Revolution and played at the opening night of Radio Leeds in 1968.
He was even reviewed in the Yorkshire Evening Post by then-reporter and rock star-in-waiting Mark Knopfler.
But his career came to a halt in 1972 when the Dandelion label folded – leaving him without a record company.
Finally, however, his music will be heard once more when his new album Edge Of The Dark is released on Monday.
Beau, 63, from Headingley, said: "I remember doing an interview with Mark Knopfler for the Evening Post just after I signed for Dandelion. At the time, Mark was quite interested in my 12 string guitar!
"All this time later, it's quite bizarre to see my face on an album cover again.
"It's taken a long while to release this album, but I never stopped writing and recording."
After his music career stalled, Beau carried on with his day job – a manager for the Halifax Building Society – where he stayed until his retirement in 1996.
He also wrote a book on Bob Dylan – Dylan: Contraband – and co-wrote a musical on the life of pop artist Andy Warhol which has yet to be performed.
He continued to write, however, penning more than 500 songs and recording many of them.
Fresh interest was first sparked in his music in 1995 when his albums were re-issued on CD.
In 2006, the Cherry Red record company began to re-release his songs and more recently he was picked up by Angel Air records which is releasing the new album.
Edge Of The Dark contains 18 previously unreleased songs.
Beau said: "It's strange, but I've always had more success and bigger sales abroad than at home. My Dandelion recordings have been re-released several times and more recently in Japan.
"And the first radio plays from the Edge Of The Dark CD have been in the Netherlands.
"It's just great to know there's still a demand for more."
l To order the CD log on to www.angelair.co.uk/sjpcd293.htm.
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