‘Sports Live at Billboard 1981’ is the latest release in the Australian Road Crew Association’s Desk Tape Series.
‘Sports Live at Billboard 1981’ captured Sports at the end of their tenure with a short recording history of just four albums from ‘Reckless’ (1978) to ‘Sondra’ (1981). ‘Sondra’ was released in May 1981 and The Sports broke up a few months later.
The Sports songwriting catalogue was rich in depth and diversity because the band was gifted with three main songwriters with Stephen Cummings, Andrew Pendleberry and Martin Armiger.
Stephen Cummings says “I was lucky because we had three prolific songwriters so it didn’t just rest on me.
“Martin Armiger wrote a lot of great songs like ‘Strangers On A Train’.
“Andrew Pendlebury who wrote ‘Perhaps’ and a lot of other songs liked country music too and prog groups like Yes and Genesis.
“We listened to the songwriters of the time like The Beatles and Stones.
“I listened to a lot of left of centre country music like Joe Ely, and Martin and I were both big Lou Reed fans. It was an eclectic blend of interests and the songs came from that.”
The Sports ROAD CREW (over the years) was:
Cyril Moonan (R.I.P) – TM and stage
Gary Brokenshire – Lights
Andy Crosby (R.I.P) – Lights
Laurie Quigley – Sound Engineer
Jon Lemon – Sound Engineer
Bob Gosford – Sound Engineer
Jim MacMillan – Sound Engineer
Dave Gornalle – Stage
Garry Craft – Monitors
Mark Edwards – Monitors
Gruzzle – Monitors
TRACKS from ‘Sports Live At Billboard 1981’
1 Black Stockings (For Chelsea
2 Don’t Throw Stones
3 Suspicious Minds
4 Passionette
5 Perhaps
6 Strangers On A Train
7 Lucky Shop
8 Blue Hearts
9 Softly, Softly
10 Against The Dance
11 Hit Single
12 This Is Really Something
13 Boys! (What Did The Detective Say)
14 Stop The Baby Talking
15 How Come
16 Who Listens To The Radio?
17 Wedding Ring
18 All The Girls But One
Sports Live At Billboard 1981 live tape and all the ARCA Desk Tape Series recordings are available through Black Box Records – ARCA (australianroadcrew.com.au) and https://ffm.to/thesportslive1981
‘Sports Live At Billboard 1981’ is ARCA’s 42nd ‘Desk Tape’ album which is scheduled for release Friday 2nd August.
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