David Palfreyman & Nicholas Pegg - Decades on CD

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An old man looks back on his life, chasing his memories through the years. Who is Kelver Leash? Over four acts and 20 songs, the decades unfold...Decades is a collaboration between singer/songwriter David Palfreyman and writer/actor Nicholas Pegg, who describe the work as 'a great big double concept album with all the trimmings'. Together with producer/engineer Ian Caple (Tindersticks, Suede, Tricky, Kate Bush), they have created a double album which entwines Palfreyman's music and lyrics with Pegg's linking narrative, building into a meditation on the fragility of time, memory, and personal history. Lead vocalists on the album include Sarah Jane Morris (best known for singing Don't Leave Me This Way with The Communards), Cassidy Janson (currently playing the lead role of Carole King in the West End musical Beautiful), Ian Shaw (twice winner of Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards), Mitch Benn (singer/comedian on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show), and Jessica Lee Morgan (daughter of legendary producer Tony Visconti and singer Mary Hopkin, currently promoting her own solo album). Other musicians on Decades include Gary Barnacle (saxophonist on classic tracks including David Bowie's Absolute Beginners, Tina Turner's I Don't Wanna Lose You, and T'Pau's China In Your Hand), David Clayton (keyboardist for George Michael, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Elton John, U2 and many others), and Terry Edwards (multi-instrumentalist with Madness, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Blockheads and Julian Cope). Linking the songs are dialogue scenes featuring an all-star cast headed by David Warner (Titanic, The Omen, Time Bandits), Richard Coyle (Coupling, Prince of Persia, Born To Kill), Jacqueline Pearce (White Mischief, Plague of the Zombies, and galactic villainess Servalan in Blake's 7), Jan Ravens (Spitting Image and Dead Ringers, currently turning heads with her uncannily accurate Theresa May), and Simon Greenall (best known as Alan Partridge's Geordie friend Michael, and the voice of the Meerkats in a certain famous series of commercials). David Palfreyman, who released his debut album RadioMagnetofon in 2010 under the name Malf, has toured extensively in the UK, Europe and the USA. Nicholas Pegg's writing credits include stage shows, audio plays, and the acclaimed book The Complete David Bowie (a noted Bowie expert, he has worked as consultant on many projects including the V&A exhibition David Bowie Is, the BBC's Five Years documentaries, and the Royal Mail's recent set of commemorative Bowie stamps), while his acting credits include regular appearances as a Dalek in Doctor Who. Decades is released by Diteli Records on 14 July 2017 on double vinyl, double CD and digital download.The single and video We All Fall Down, featuring Sarah Jane Morris, will be released two weeks earlier on 30 June. Track Listing - Act I - Decades (Instrumental); Hello, You're Through To Kelver Leash; Faraway Day; Good Evening And A Very Warm Welcome; There Goes My Darling; Didn't Last, Of Course; Dead End Morning; Mum; Escape To Dream - Act II: Here We Are Darling; Kick On; Now You've Been In The Public Eye; Got To Be Seen To Be Believed; Mum, I'm Home ; Who Knows What Is True?; Well, What Do You Think So Far?; Love You 'Til Burn Out; So What Have We Got?; Lady Blue - Act III: Are You Going Through With It? ; Hurting, Sinking; It s Over; We All Fall Down; And What About Your Private Life?; Full Circle; The Last Time I Saw Lady Blue; Broken Trend; So When Did You Last See Her?; Eyes Wide - Act IV: After A Time; Blue Requiem; There s Rosemary; Some People Just Get All The Breaks; Kelver, Its Linda; Only For A Moment; Right Place, Wrong Time; Standing On The Corner; Kelver, Darling ; Decades (Reprise) (Instrumental)