Simon Elvin – Apart From Me

Simon Elvin
Apart From Me
1985 Broken Records
Plymouth, Devonshire, England

Simon Elvin – Lead vocals, piano, synthesizers, clarinet, acoustic guitar, drums, rhythm programmes

Dave Wellington – Backing vocals
Linda Nicols – Backing vocals, duet on “The Need in Me”
Steve Wheeler – Lead guitar, backing vocals on “Warriors”

Side 1:

1. Feeling the Love
2. Party
3. Years Go By
4. The Need in Me
5. Little Star

Side 2:

1. Can’t Waste Another Day
2. Every Day
3. One in a Million
4. Suddenly
5. Warriors
6. His Love

Another tape that seems to have been lost to the sands of time. The sound on this one is early/mid 80s rock, kind of somewhere between Billy Joel and Elton John. If you have ever thought the song “My Life” could rock out a bit more, then this is the tape for you. Songs like “Party” and others rip out some killer guitar leads – so this is more than your average pop rock wanna-be. I can’t find much more information about Elvin online, other than he had at least one follow up to this tape called Somewhere in Time on Myrrh Records in 1987. Also, this tape notes that it was engineered by *the* Famous Gnome I have wondered about in the past – Julian Payne. But no Famous Gnome logo on this one, unfortunately.