Love Affair/STEVE ELLIS: 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.
STEVE ELLIS: 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This album was first released in 2004, entitled "A Sort Of Innocence" (now withdrawn).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".
STEVE ELLIS: 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.
STEVE ELLIS: 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
STEVE ELLIS: 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.
STEVE ELLIS: 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
STEVE ELLIS: 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 TAPES 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
STEVE ELLIS: 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.
