Graham Gouldman announces new solo album

“I wrote this song in Nashville last year with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Gordon Kennedy,” Gouldman explains. “Both of whom I’ve worked with before. I just started playing this opening riff, there’s some nodding going on, it sounded quite exuberant and so the theme had to be something life-affirming. Beth came up with the We’re Alive title, and then we finished off the song really quickly together.

“There are certain references, which I love, that are kind of interesting. “Pull back the sofa, wind up the gramophone”. You know who’s got a gramophone? Nobody!”

The album features an array of musical styles including what is being referred to as a “space-ballad” (Floating In Heaven with May), the “unashamed Beatle-inspired” Couldn’t Love You More (featuring Starr), the “long-lost 10cc-era confessional I’m Lazy” and a live rendition of Heart Full Of Soul, featuring an all-star band Brian May and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal on guitar, Derek Sherinian on keyboards, Ric Fierabracci on bass and Simon Phillips on drums.

Gouldman will premiere I Have Notes with two special one-off album launch shows on July 1 and 2, at Pizza Express Live in Holborn, which will see him debut songs from I Have Notes, along with favourites from across his incredible career.

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