![]() And I thought, ‘Well, it’s a lovely song.’ We had a guy come over from L.A., an American producer called John Ryan, who arrived in Stafford to do some pre-production on an album that we were going to record in Los Angeles called Flying The Flag. After a couple of hours just sitting in my studio I came up with this song I Love You – words, solo, drums, the whole thing. Holt: “That song was written in my house. And I guess the influence was the person I was with at the time.” You know, usually, songs appear from nowhere, and that one appeared in a couple of hours. At that particular moment in time, everything was right. ![]() You know, pretty much out living a dream, because, ‘Ooo, I love you.’ You could say it’s for one person, but it’s quite generic. We had a great time – I’m meeting my wife since then I’ve never looked back. I was a hippie, a drinking hippie with really long hair. I used to go away from home, used to leave her behind, and used to come back. He told us: “It was about meeting my first wife, meeting the lady that’s going to encourage me to do what I did best, and that was be a musician, with no qualms about it. I also get emails from people who actually got married because of it even had it played at their “first dance” at their reception.īass player Derek Holt wrote this song. But it became a really popular radio song and of course, a lot of people fell in love because of it. I never got to tour and sing the song live so I feel slightly cheated out of performing it. charts, they actually chose not to back me up instead of just being grateful for another hit. tour booked but both Colin and Pete didn’t want to “go on the road to promote my career”. When the song became a hit (also it was the start of me then becoming a lead singer which worried the others), we had a major U.S. ![]() I lost the argument to keep it all the same as before and ended up gaining 100% of my own song. For this album, we had a meeting to discuss starting to have songwriting credit split separately. He would have the last laugh as this came from an interview with Derek.ĭerek: Up until the ‘Flying the Flag’ album, we used to split songwriting royalties four equal ways as we were all credited with writing songs. The legendary Nicky Hopkins played on this track.ĭerek Holt who was the bass player wrote the song. This song developed a large following and continues to get airplay on many radio stations. This is a very likable ballad that was a big hit in 1981. ![]()
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