Intimate Strangers - The Blue Hour

"Charm" 1986
Raise The Dragon was a duo from Scotland (Richard Spellman - vocal & Sean Lyons -guitar)released one only Ep,later changed their name to Intimate Strangers to come out with an album in 1986. Their music is a mixture of Bowie, Bryan Ferry and Haircut 100 (Mark Fox and Les Nemes from Haircut 100 played on this album). Sean has played the guitar with such diverse artists as George Clinton, Robyn Hitchcock and Brian Kennedy, toured in '98 with French star Patricia Kaas and even played banjo on "5-6-7-8" by Steps (a career high?). He has collaborated with Stewart Copeland on work included in Rumblefish and Highlander 3 amongst other films, and David Bowie recorded one of his first songs "Criminal World" on the "Let's Dance" album.
Back in 1976 he was a member of art rock band Metro together with Peter Godwin before formed Raise The Dragon

"There was once a two-man band named Raise the Dragon, who made one gracefully mannered EP I thought was wonderful. Before they could even make a whole album, though, as best I can deduce, they got hit on the heads by falling frozen turkeys or something, and woke up with some sheet music and each other and no memories. They formed a new band, called Intimate Strangers in honor of their amnesiac alliance, and remade most of the songs from the EP in randomly different styles. Head injury isn't really a self-improvement program, and some of the songs fare incredibly poorly in their second lives ("Raise the Dragon" itself makes me very sad), but "The Blue Hour" is resurrected like the Blue Nile gritting their teeth through migraines in which they think they're Bruce Hornsby, and I sing along with it in honor of everything that never had a chance."

"At his smoothest, Raise the Dragon's Richard Spellman sings like a debonair blend of David Bowie and Bryan Ferry (loud, his voice is quite less appealing); Sean Lyons provides attractive, fragile guitar threads. With backing from five sessionmen, including ex-Rumour bassist Andrew Bodnar, and production by Art of Noise's Anne Dudley, the crafty pair spin both lovely, melodic tunes ("The Blue Hour") and tedious light dance-rockers ("Deliverance" and "Raise the Dragon") on Deliverance. But an ill-advised cover of "Hold On (I'm Coming)" is laughable.
Returning two years later as Intimate Strangers, Spellman and Lyons released Charm, which contains two remixes and one peppy re-recording of their first EP's best songs plus seven new creations in roughly the same plangent dance vein."

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Music

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• intimate strangers
• raise the dragon
• richard spellman
• sean lyons
• metro

[Kempcomm]

Stunning, so beautiful. I haven't heard this for so long...been looking for years. Thank you. ..."I'm going the distance, and I need you to come with me.." Brilliant.

[GBStuff]

@Kempcomm your welcome:)



[Leo36425]

@Jeredos look for Raise the Dragon - Deliverance, same song The blue hour, first version released in 1984 and re-recorded in 1986 by Intimate Strangers from the album Charm

[Leo36425]

@sylviakitty222 i am not inviting you to listen with me . If you think it's awful i don't care, i am sorry

[Kempcomm]

@sylviakitty222

You must feel pretty awful yourself, poor soul...

[sylviakitty222]

This is awful. I'm sorry.

[wickedlittlethings]

I'm going down the waterfront tonight

Because I heard that's where you're lyin'

And this silver money says I am right

Fire up those engines of love and we´re flyin'

They'd sing from Heaven, oh girl, go try him

wo-oh wo-oh, in the blue hour, the blue hour

Leave on your clothes, leave on the lights

And run the risk of stormy weather

Throw away your caution to the night

Love like this don´t last forever...

[wickedlittlethings]

It´s just adrenaline that's keeping us together

wo-oh wo-oh, in the blue hour, the blue hour

in the blue hour, the blue hour

Every time we turned the radio on

Every time we heard that Four Ace song

I'm going down the waterfront, step into the sea,

Pick up the line of least resistance with dignity, oh

I'm going the distance and I need you to come with me

wo-oh wo-oh, in the blue hour, the blue hour, in the blue hour

in the blue hour, the blue hour, the blue hour...