Living Daylights - Let's Live For Today: The Complete Recordings (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 294 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | 01:01:19
Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Cherry Red Records, Grapefruit Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 294 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | 01:01:19
Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Cherry Red Records, Grapefruit Records
Led by Garth Watt-Roy and his younger brother (future Blockhead) Norman, five-piece Harlow band Living Daylights signed with Beatles publisher Dick James in 1967. Paired with a studio production team that included Caleb Quaye, the band were given a song that James published, 'Let's Live For Today', as their debut single. Released in April 1967, it entered Radio London's Fab Forty after being championed by the pirate station's DJ John Peel. Also issued in America, the song showed significant sales potential, and Dick James decided the band should record an album that would be rushed out if the single became a success. Unfortunately, 'Let's Live For Today' lost out to a cover version by American band The Grass Roots, who scored a US Top Ten hit. Without a hit to support it, the Living Daylights' album failed to appear, and the band split after a second single failed to find favour. 55 years later, that album finally gains a release, with mono and stereo mixes joined by their UK singles and American and Japanese versions. 'Let's Live For Today: The Complete Recordings' is a vital addition to the pantheon of British psychedelic pop albums from the epochal year of 1967.