There’s a lot to say about the 1980’s and music. It was still what I would call the golden age of popular music, starting with Beatles in the mid 1960’s – and would continue into the early years of the 1990’s – finally killed by music streaming both legal and otherwise.
Hard to believe now, but in those halcyon days one could actually make a living just writing songs. Imagine that.
Not saying it was easy, I worked at it day and night, and I was driven by love and compulsion (two very powerful forces that still play a role in my life today), not to mention inspiration by the incredible music that was being written and recorded by a pantheon of talent in those amazing years.
Into this “Gifted Age”, and only for a brief moment, came the musical group L.E.D. aka Lenny, Eddie and Dave.
Lenny Zakatek, had attained fame as the lead singer in The Alan Parson’s Project (“Eye in the Sky”, “Games People Play”) and his Canadian manager approached me and my then musical partner, Dave Tyson to write and produce a project for Lennie. Over the course of a few weeks L.E.D. was born. And, no – there’s no reason you should have ever heard about it, since none of the recordings we did were ever released publicly.
One of those demo recordings was a song called “Don’t Shed a Tear”, later recorded by one of my lifelong musical heroes, Paul Carrack.
Another was “Room With a View”, fortunately later recorded by another tremendous artist, Jeffery Osborne.
I recently came across the L.E.D. "demos" of these two songs, the ones Paul and Jeffrey would have heard when they were screening songs for their own albums. I'll be sharing those original L.E.D. recording, among others shortly
Thanks for reading and to be continued . . .
