WONDERING why John Martyn stands out of the crowd frequently leads to convoluted mental posing and a few smart arse one liners when the fact is, he just writes and performs superb songs.
27 Aug 1982
SCOTS singer-songwriter John Martyn has been making music since he was 17 and has recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums.
01 Aug 1982
"Published by Intersong Music Limited. Order reference 7688. Distributed by International Music Publications."
The 32 page booklet contains 13 songs, a biography by Steve Sutherland and several pictures from the Well Kept Secret period.
The biography is almost identical to the Well Kept Secret tour program by the same author; only the last paragraphs differ.
01 Aug 1982
Jeff Allen, Drums
Jeff is a leading session drummer whose credits read like a who's who of the record business. Formerly in East of Eden for four years he went on to play with Bonnie Tyler, Barbara Dickson, B.A. Robertson and on literally hundreds of records.
17 Dec 1981
If the publicity machine has not yet made him a Rod Stewart or a Gerry Rafferty, then a loyal following around the world has certainly made a cult figure of John Martyn.
John who? It is still a fair question in his own native city of Glasgow, where the former Shawlands Academy boy is perhaps less of a name than he is in London, Vienna or New York.
B.A. Robertson examines the Scottish contribution to rock & roll in this one hour documentary. John jokes for a minute after playing Couldn't Love You More (1:10) in recording studio The Town House (Goldhawk Road).
HE LOOKS an odd sort of bloke, does John: under the guitar, he's wearing a beige suit with a jacket that crumples in all the wrong places, and the naval full-set under the beetle-brows imparts a vague menace.
"I'D LIKE to draw your attention to one ghastly fact… all the power in the building has just gone off."
31 Oct 1981
First time John performed at Friars.
The back side of the flyer is crammed with typewriter text:
HEARTS AND KEYS
10 Oct 1981
Over a wee dram o'champagne, John Martyn meditates on life, loyalty, loneliness and love's labours lost.
Sympathetic ears: Chris Salewicz
Eyes: Jean-Bernard Sohiez
