TIME HASN'T CHANGED US (2015)
"Time Hasn't Changed Us" (the Complete CBS Recordings 1967-1971) is a 3CD box-set issued by Cherry Red on 29 June 2015, encompassing both The Love Affair's entire recordings 1967-1970 and Steve Ellis' subsequent solo recordings. As well as boasting all his singles A's and B's, Disc 3 comprises sessions for a Steve Ellis solo album, abandoned at the time (and first released on the 2CD "Rollin' With The 69 Crew: The Lost Masters" in 2013).
Exclusive to this 3CD are live BBC recordings from 1969 of the Love Affair covering Jimi Hendrix ("All Along The Watchtower"), Beatles ("A Day In The Life") and Dr. John ("Walk On Gilded Splinters").
- UK 3CD: Cherry Red RPM RPMBXM 526
Track listing CD3:
Loot (from Loot) / More More More (from Loot) / Evie / Fat Crow / Take Your Love / Jingle Jangle Jasmine / Have You Seen My Baby (alias Hold On) / Goody Goody Dancing Shoes / Good Time Livin' / Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart / It's A Man's Man's Man's World / Bread And Wine / Lean On Me / Rainy Night In Georgia / Holly Holy / Charley Patton Rides The Delta / I Don't Know Why / Gimme Shelter / Pisces Apple Lady / Way Up On The Hill / I Got A Feelin' / Can't Stop Worryin' Can't Stop Lovin' / Take Me To The Pilot / Sympathy
The box set is named after "Time Hasn't Changed Us", a scheduled final single by the Love Affair with Steve Ellis on vocals which remained unreleased until 2013.
Housed in nifty card packaging (with individual cardboard sleeves for each CD), this new package includes detailed sleeve-notes with quotes from Steve Ellis.
CD1 and CD2 are detailed in the Love Affair discography.
VARIOUS - The Ronnie Lane Memorial Concert 2004
VARIOUS - "One For The Road" (2014)
- UK 2CD: Angel Air SJPCD450
Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 08 April 2004, this 2CD-set holds the complete RONNIE LANE MEMORIAL CONCERT, featuring Slim Chance, Jones Gang, Steve Ellis, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Sam Brown, Ronnie Wood, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Ocean Colour Scene, Steve Ellis, Midge Ure, Deborah Bonham Band, Chris Farlowe, among others.
Steve Ellis performed "Afterglow (of Your Love)" and "Tin Soldier" backed by the Jones Gang featuring Small Faces, Faces and Who drummer Kenney Jones with Rick Wills and Gary Grainger. Also available on DVD.
ROLLIN' WITH THE 69 CREW (2013)
Track listing CD1: Good Time Livin' / Somethin's Gotten Hold of my Heart / It's a Man's Man's Man's World / Bread and Wine / Lean on Me / Rainy Night in Georgia / Holly Holy / Sympathy / Evie / Take Your Love
Track listing CD2: Charley Patton Rides the Delta / I Don't Know Why / Gimme Shelter / Fat Crow / Pisces Apple Lady / Way Up on the Hill / I Got a Feelin' / Can't Stop Worryin' / Take Me to The Pilot / Hold On
- UK 2CD: Talking Elephant TECD233
This selection of solo recordings are culled from recently uncovered long lost tapes which have been lovingly remixed to the highest of modern standards.
This album is the culmination of a search, lasting over ten years, to find missing tapes of a series of recording sessions undertaken by Steve Ellis after he left the Love Affair in 1969. The idea was to release a Steve Ellis solo album in 1970, which would establish him as a performer in his own right. What did appear at that time, was the soundtrack to the film "Loot", plus a couple of singles. This collection of songs got left behind and gathered dust in the CBS vaults. Listening to this now, one can see how Steve made the musical transition from the sound of Love Affair to the sound of the Ellis band.
The first CD features ten songs that utilize the musicians and backing that was present on the Love Affair hit singles, including orchestral arrangements by Keith Mansfield. This is the closest thing to a second Love Affair album, with a selection of well chosen covers and even "Lean On Me" written by Phillip Goodhand-Tait, the man responsible for most of Love Affair's hit singles. It also includes one of the first covers of "Rainy Night in Georgia", which latterly became something of a standard, but Steve got in there first with his version and a mighty fine one it is too.
The second CD features the band, Hookfoot, along with various guest musicians and presents Steve in a Rock setting. Steve contributes four songs to the the ten featured here, which includes a very early cover of a Elton John and Bernie Taupin song, "Take Me To The Pilot". The overall sound of this collection of songs is somewhat reminiscent of The Band, which very much lends an air of maturity to the whole proceedings.
TEN COMMITMENTS (2011)
Track listing: Don't Let Me Be The Only One / Healing Touch / Hit The Spot / Never Say Never / On The Way Home / Perfect Sunday / Please Please Me / Thank You Baby For Loving Me / War Train / We Got It
- UK CD: Angel Air SJPCD375
Steve Ellis recorded recorded "Ten Commitments" with his backing band the Big City Allstars. One of the tracks "Healing Touch" reunites Steve with the writers Cason/Gaydon who wrote "Everlasting Love" and "Rainbow Valley" back in 1968.
An enhanced promotional video of Steve's cover of the Beatles classic "Please Please Me" is included on the CD.
BEST OF DAYS (2008)
Track listing: Everlasting Love / Brand New Start / As The Crow Flies / Step Inside / Requiem For A Tyrant / Nu Clear Blues / Little One / Modesty / Yellow Rose Of Texas / Turn To Stone / Heaven's Word / El Doomo / Best Of Days / Everlasting Love (Live)
- UK CD: Demon Records FIEND 5001
On this 2008 album Steve is aided and abetted by heavy guests such as his longtime pal, Roger Daltrey and Paul Weller and Steve Cradock. "Best Of Days" includes re-interpretations of "Everlasting Love", and his Ellis classic, the moody ballad "El Doomo", as well as a plentiful supply of new songs, including Paul Weller's "Brand New Start".
This album was first released in 2004, entitled "A Sort Of Innocence" (now withdrawn). The 2008 edition has been re-mastered, and it also includes an alternate version of "Everlasting Love".
THE LOVE AFFAIR IS OVER (2008)
Track listing CD: Life User / Hear Your Woman / Hang On Joey / Rag and Bone / Everlasting Love / Blackmail / Wind And A Lady / Soothe Me / Why Do The Good Guys Die / The Last Angry Man / El Doomo / Shark Shoes / I Lost My Feelings / She's Leaving / War Train / Hold On / Warm Love
Track listing DVD: On The Road Again / Hush / Back In Your Arms / Handbags And Gladrags / Bringing On Back The Good Times / A Day Without Love / If I Could Only Be Sure / Gimme Some Lovin' / Ain't Too Proud To Beg / Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) / Uptight (Everything's Alright) / The Love You Save / Rainbow Valley / Everlasting Love / Out Of Time / Steve Ellis interview
- UK CD/DVD: Angel Air SJPCD 266
This is the first release in the new Angel Air CD/DVD series called "Sound And Vision". With attractive packaging housed in a 2CD slipcase, what you basically get is a midprice CD with a bonus DVD of previously released Angel Air titles. The CD ("The Last Angry Man") and DVD ("Last Tango In Bradford") are still available individually.
AN EVERLASTING SOUL - THE ANTHOLOGY (2005)
"An Everlasting Soul" is the ultimate Steve Ellis collection. This 2CD, 43 track anthology contains A- and B-sides of all the singles he cut with Love Affair (7), Ellis (4) and Widowmaker (2), plus seven solo singles, many which have never been available on CD before.
There are also two previously unreleased songs ("Indian Rope Man" and "I'm Alive", both from the aborted "Pavement Arena" CD), live recordings from a Steve Marriott tribute concert, plus the Peter Bardens track "The Answer".
- UK 2CD: Castle Music CMEDD 1047
Track listing: WIDOWMAKER: On The Road / Pin A Rose On Me / When I Met You
LOVE AFFAIR: She Smiled Sweetly / Satifaction Guaranteed / Everlasting Love / Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday / Rainbow Valley / Someone Like Me / A Day Without Love / I'm Happy / One Road / Let Me Know / Bringing On Back The Good Times / Another Day / Baby I Know / Accept Me For What I Am
STEVE ELLIS: Loot's The Root / More, More, More / Evie / Fat Crow / Take Your Love / Jingle Jangle Jasmine / Have You Seen My Baby / Goody Goody Dancing Shoes / Rag And Bone / Save All The Encores / Soothe Me / Wind And A Lady / Hot Lips / Song Of A Baker / Afterglow (Of Your Love) / Indian Rope Man / I'm Alive / The Answer (with Peter Bardens)
ELLIS: El Doomo / Your Game / Good To Be Alive / Morning Paper / Open Road / Leaving In The Morning / Loud And Lazy Love Songs / Goodbye Boredom
A SORT OF INNOCENCE (2004)
Track listing: Brand New Start / Step Inside / Everlasting Love / As The Crow Flies / Requiem For A Tyrant / Little One / Modesty / Yellow Rose Of Texas / Nu Clear Blues / Turn To Stone / Heaven's World / El Doomo / Best of Days / Everlasting Love (Live)
- UK CD: Red Rock REDR001
"A Sort Of Innocence" was Steve's first album in many years and contained many tracks from the unreleased "Pavement Arena" album from 1999, plus new songs which featured Paul Weller and Roger Daltrey.
This CD has since been withdrawn.
A remastered edition was re-issued by Demon Records in 2008 entitled "Best Of Days". This sported a new cover and included an alternate version of "Everlasting Love" plus a revised tracklisting.
VARIOUS - The Steve Marriott Memorial Concert 2001
VARIOUS - "Mustn't Grumble" (2002)
- UK 2CD: Sanctuary SANCD112
Tracklisting: Song Of A Baker / After Glow / Whatcha Gonna Do About It / Phone Call Away / Big Train / Groovy / Black Coffee / Itchycoo Park / My Way Of Giving / 30 Days In The Hole / Lazy Sunday / Four Day Creep / Natural Born Bugie / Shine On / My Mind's Eye / Become Like You / I'm Only Dreaming / Get Yourself Together / Here Comes The Nice / Tin Soldier / All Or Nothing
This 2CD-set collects the best performances from the show at the Astoria Theatre.
VARIOUS - "One More Time For The Ol Tosser" (2005)
- UK 3CD: Wapping Wharf Records DWWLCD01
This de-luxe 3CD-set is the debut release on the Small Faces fan club label 'Wapping Wharf Records'. It holds the complete sold out London Astoria show with bonus archive interview with Steve Marriott.
The concert on 20 April 2001 saw a stellar cast of musicians paying to Steve Marriott upon the 10th anniversary of his tragic death. The line-up included many great artists such as Peter Frampton & Humble Pie, Clem Clempson, Greg Ridley, Paul Weller, Zak Starkey, Noel Gallagher, Midge Ure, Debbie Bonham and the remaining Small Faces Kenny Jones & Ian MacLagan.
Both sets include Steve Ellis as the featured vocalist on "Song Of A Baker", "After Glow", "My Way Of Giving" and "Tin Soldier". He also joins the all-star cast for the closing number "All Or Nothing". The 3CD-set adds Steve Ellis' version of "Understanding". Also available on DVD.
THE BEST OF THE GOOD TIMES (2001)
LOVE AFFAIR tracks: Bringing On Back The Good Times / Hush / Everlasting Love / A Day Without Love / Handbags & Gladrags / Rainbow Valley / So Sorry / The First Cut Is The Deepest / Let Me Know / Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday / Baby I Know / 60 Minutes (Of Your Love) / Someone Like Me / One Road / I'm Happy / Tobacco Road
STEVE ELLIS tracks: Jolly Jaunt / Little One / Step Inside
- UK CD: Columbia 504.419 2
Steve Ellis assisted with this compilation and included three tracks from the unreleased "Pavement Arena" album - they are listed as 'taken from the forthcoming album'.
PAVEMENT ARENA (1999)
Track listing: Jolly Jaunt / I'm Alive / Modesty / Step Inside / As The Crow Flies / Requiem For A Tyrant / Indian Rope Man / Little One / Turn To Stone / Heaven's Word / Radio Daze 2 / Everlasting Love Reprise
- UK CD: private pressing
Having worked on his 'comeback' album for many years, Steve finally completed "Pavement Arena" in 1999 and spent the next couple of years shopping for a record deal, sadly to no avail. Demonstration CD copies are in circulation and they show that this really is a great album which should have seen the light of day!
UPDATE 2005: Luckily all but two of the "Pavement Arena" tracks ("Radio Daze 2" and "Everlasting Love Reprise") have been made available on other records in recent years:
LOVE AFFAIR: THE BEST OF THE GOOD TIMES (2001) - Jolly Jaunt / Little One / Step Inside
STEVE ELLIS: A SORT OF INNOCENCE (2004) - As The Crow Flies / Requiem For A Tyrant / Modesty / Turn To Stone / Heaven's Word
STEVE ELLIS: AN EVERLASTING SOUL (2005) - Indian Rope Man / I'm Alive
THE CLARKS - Bennie's Fifties Presents The Clarks (1992)
Track listing: GOLDEN Medley / SANDY COAST Medley / SHOCKING Medley / SHADOW Medley / BNZ Medley / STONES Medley / DOMINO Medley / EVERLASTING Medley / BEATLE Medley / IN MOTION Medley / SWINGING SIXTIES Medley
- Holland CD: BMG/RCA 74321-126452
The Clarks from Holland invited guest artists to sing on this album. Steve Ellis sang "Everlasting Medley" which included "Hush", "A Day Without Love" and "Everlasting Love". He also appeared with the band on national television.
The Clarks website: www.theclarks.nl.
SCARLET - Red Alert (1988/2015)
Track listing RED ALERT: Those Days Are Gone / Red Alert / Free Yourself / Hang On Me / Damage / Hooked On Love / The Great Deserter / Fire 1+2
- Germany LP: Synton Records BLD-707 (pictured top)
- Germany remix LP (1989): Hellhound SPV 08-6804
- Germany remix CD (1989): Hellhound SPV 85-6805
Steve first worked with Terry Henderson on three demos in his Brighton home in 1984: Hooked On Love, A Wonder, Red Alert.
Another eight demos were recorded in 1985: Hang On Me, Fight Another Day, Empty, Fire I + II, The Great Deserter, The Great Deserter (version 1), I Believe, The Great Deserter (version 2).
Terry Henderson went on to form Scarlet in 1986 and signed with the German label Synton. He auditioned several vocalists without success, so when album sessions began in 1987 he asked Steve Ellis to step in. Steve agreed to do the album with them as a 'special guest' but he didn't want to join the band for contractual reasons.
The 1988 LP suffered from a bad mix, so Henderson signed a new deal with Hellhound Records who remixed the album and released it a year later.
By the time Scarlet recorded their second album "Ship Of Fools" in 1992, Colin Peel had joined on vocals.
UPDATE 2015: Terry Henderson has prepared a fine download only album called "Those Days Are Gone - Best Of Scarlet" (pictured above) which has been digitally recorded from the original analog mastertapes. Steve Ellis is the lead vocalist on four songs: "Those Days Are Gone" (previously unreleased version), "Hooked On Love", "The Great Deserter" and "Free Yourself"
Track listing THOSE DAYS ARE GONE: Those Days Are Gone (previously unreleased) / Night Of The Long Knives / Daytona Sunset / The Outlaw / Bye Bye Railroad / Hooked On Love / You / Sarah (unreleased version) / Summer Rain / Lady Dangerous / Under The Gun / The Great Deserter / Free Yourself / Riding On Dreams (unreleased version)
The "Those Days Are Gone" compilation can be downloaded at http://scarlet-freedownload.de/
THE LAST ANGRY MAN (1978 / 2000)
Track listing 1978 cassette:
Life User / Hear Your Woman / Hang On Joey / Rag and Bone / Everlasting Love / Blackmail / Wind And A Lady / Soothe Me / Why Do The Good Guys Die / The Last Angry Man
Bonus tracks 2000 CD:
El Doomo / Shark Shoes / I Lost My Feelings / She's Leaving / War Train / Hold On / Warm Love
"The Last Angry Man" was recorded with producers Tony Meehan and Dave Courtney in 1977/78. Helping Steve out in the studio were Brian Robertson, Henry McCullough, Henry Spinetti, Tim Hinkley, Roger Chapman and Roger Daltrey among others.
When producers Meehan and Courtney had a dispute, the finished album was cancelled, although a few cassette and 8-track tapes were issued by Ariola in May 1978. White label vinyl test pressings from 1978 also exist. The front and back covers of the LP are pictured middle left - I am still looking for a colour scan!
The "Last Angry Man" album finally saw the light of day in 2000 with seven bonus tracks recorded in 1983, labelled 'Basement Days', referring to the 2-track studio they were recorded in. It was re-issued in 2008 as "The Love Affair Is Over" (see separate entry). The 2008 edition is a CD/DVD combo, combining the "The Last Angry Man" CD with the Steve Ellis DVD "Last Tango In Bradford".
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BASEMENT DAYS musicians:
Steve Ellis vocals, Eric Wright guitars, Gerry Pinner guitars, Mel Taylor bass, Oz Garvey drums.
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- UK cassette (1978): Ariola ZCARL 5004 (pictured top)
- UK LP test pressing (1978): Ariola ARL 5004 (middle)
- UK CD (2000): Angel Air SJPCD077 (pictured below)
- Japan CD (2000): Vivid Sound VSCD-2850
- UK CD/DVD (2008): Angel Air SJPCD 266
PETER BARDENS: The Answer (1970)
Track listing 1970 LP: The Answer / Don't Goof With A Spook / I Can't Remember / I Don't Want To Go Home / Let's Get It On / Homage To The God Of Light
Bonus tracks 2010 CD: Man In The Moon / Long Time Coming
- UK LP: Transatlantic TRA 222 (pictured top)
- US LP: Verve Forecast FTS 3088
- Germany LP (1971): Transatlantic MLP 15389 (left)
- UK LP (1976): Transatlantic TRA SAM 36 (right)
- Germany CD (1988): Line TACD 9.005629
- UK CD (2010): Esoteric Recordings ECLEC 2221
Steve Ellis was busy recording songs for a solo album in 1970, but he also took time out to sing on his old friend Peter Bardens' debut album, "The Answer", released in September that year. The album featured the young German guitarist Andy Gee who would join Steve Ellis two years later, in the band Ellis. Peter Green (of Fleetwood Mac fame) is also guesting on the album, uncredited.
Peter Bardens had been a member of the Love Affair for a few weeks in 1967, having replaced Morgan Fisher, but he soon left and would eventually find success with his band Camel in the mid-70s.
The German edition was released in 1971 with a different sleeve. The UK 1976 re-issue also has a different sleeve and "Write My Name In The Dust" from Bardens' 1971 album "Peter Bardens" replaced "Let's Get It On". The bonus tracks on the 2010 CD are the two sides of a 1969 single by Bardens band The Village.
LOOT (1970)
Steve Ellis got a call from his manager shortly after he'd left the Love Affair in 1969, asking if he would like to sing on a film soundtrack. When Steve learnt that Keith Mansfield who had produced all the Love Affair hits was commissioned to write the film score he jumped at the chance. "Loot" was released in 1970 to great critical acclaim and Steve was backed on vocals by Sue & Sunny, Madeline Bell and Doris Troy. The musicians included Clem Cattini, Herbie Flowers and Big Jim Sullivan.
Track listing: More, More, More / Loot's The Root / Hey, Hey, Hey / Where It's At / Stealth In The Night / Oh Fay! / We Nearly Were Lovers / Police Barricade / Mothers Waltz / The Undertaker Song / Eyeball Serenade / Loot's The Root / And More, More, More
- UK LP: CBS 70073 (pictured top)
- UK CD (2001): RPM RPM228 (middle left)
- UK CD (2011): Angel Air SJPCD 367 (middle right)
The 2001 CD has since been deleted, but Angel Air made the album available again in 2011.
The soundtrack LP was ever issued in the US, but the movie was released on home video (pictured below left). "Loot" is still available on DVD in most markets.
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"Loot" is a British comedy based on a Joe Orton play with a dark, funny premise. Young men manage to steal money from a bank vault, attempt to hide it in a coffin that already holds a body, remove the body, and then are stuck attempting to hide both.
Hywel Bennett plays Dennis, one of the young robbers, who lays every woman in sight; Milo O'Shea plays his father; Richard Attenborough is the inspector on the bank case; and Lee Remick plays a sexy nurse caring for Dennis' mother and looking for a rich man.
The soundtrack album carries with it short extracts of dialogue. The combination of Mansfield's writing and arrangements and Ellis' performance produces a groovy blend of funky rock, plenty of Hammond and stomping beats.
