Angel Pavement
Angel Pavement, like their fellow York renegades The
Smoke, found
their spiritual home as part of producer Monty Babson's Morgan
Blue Town stable of artists in the late 1960s.
An exhilarating musical sojourn to Mexico shaped the quintet
into a tight, harmonic musical unit and yielded several original
compositions which they cut under the supervision of Morgan staff
producer and Smoke drummer Geoff Gill upon their return to
England in the summer of 1969.
The band's two lone singles were atypical, if rather charming,
pop efforts donated by Morgan whiz kid Danny Beckerman and
performed by the Morgan house band.
Despite further singles and an album being scheduled, the real
meat of Angel Pavement's output was to remain tantalisingly
unreleased until the 21st century - Maybe Tomorrow, an
impressive collection of their complete recordings, was released
in 2005.
Their brand of English guitar pop is imbued as much with the
sound of the West Coast as it is with the domestic baroque 'n'
roll of Honeybus, The Zombies and
Badfinger.
Paul Smith's voice
recalls John Pantry's work from the same period, while Graham
Harris' nimble, melodic bass effectively became the group's lead
instrument on many tracks.
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