Reel To Real: The Archives

Reel To Real: The Archives is een album van Graham Bonnet, uitgebracht in 2018. Het album betreft een rock 3-CD. Although this new collection of unreleased recordings only covers a small part of the Graham Bonnet story, few frontmen can claim to have had such a lengthy and diverse journey, first finding fame as part of The Marbles duo, who enjoyed a hit with the Bee Gees’ ‘Only One Woman’ in 1968, followed by a solo career across the 1970s, again enjoying further success with the Bee Gees’ disco flavoured ‘Warm Ride’. Achieving what was possibly his greatest success in 1979 with Rainbow’s “Down To Earth”,worldwide hits followed with the singles ‘All Night Long’ and ‘Since You Been Gone’. Further solo success beckoned with the song ‘Night Games’ from the “Line-Up” album in 1981, before Graham briefly joined The Michael Schenker Group for 1982’s “Assault Attack”. Graham then formed Alcatrazz with a then little known Swedish guitarist called Yngwie J. Malmsteen, who would be replaced by another legendary axe-slinger, Steve Vai, before the singer hooked up with Chris Impellitteri and the band Impellitteri, Graham has subsequently recorded with Forcefield, Japan’s Anthem, the Taz Taylor Band and Blackthorne with Bob Kulick. “Reel to Real: The Archives 1987-1992” focuses on a short, five year period, when the singer was partly based in Australia. Kicking off with three tracks recorded in Los Angeles in 1987, ‘Tonite I Fly’, ‘Reel To Real’ and ‘The Dancer’, they feature Alcatrazz guitarist Danny Johnson. ‘Whiplash’, ‘Long Time Gone’, covers of ‘Summer In The City’ and ‘River Deep - Mountain High’ plus ‘Midnight Crossing’ were recorded in Adelaide, Australia in 1989 during the period that Graham had relocated down under. The first disc is completed by ‘Double Cross My Heart’,…