Peter Godwin - AMERICA IN MY HEAD - Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin - AMERICA IN MY HEAD - Peter Godwin - Shot on a Sunday afternoon in Christine's flat - while we were shooting a guy got shot in the flat next door - Fabulous track - shoulda gone to #1...

Peter was in a band called METRO - they had three albums: Metro, Furure Imperfect and New Love. Correspondance was Peter's solo Album, produced by Georg Kajanus (from DADA and Sailer - check him out on YouTube). America in My Head was on the METRO album Future Imperfect and released as a 45 - this is the 12-inch version.

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[cruithneuladh]

Wow!, all credit to you for posting this, I still have the 12" vinyl of this, bought at a closing-down sale for 10p!. I reckon it's one of the best songs I've ever heard and am still raving about it to people after all these years. Was this the same Duncan Browne who did "Journey" way back in the seventies?

[R4949]

Yup - same Dincan Browne

[Colin Baldwin]

I have the Metro 12" of this :). Wasn't it produced by Richard James Burgess who did the first 2 Spandau Ballet albums and was in Landscape (Einstein A Go Go)?

[R4949]

there is another 12" version re-mixed by Richard Burgess. This is the original mix.

[edweena3]

I'm a Peter Godwin fan and never heard of this song. It's not from Correspondence, that's for sure. Where's it from? Thanks for posting.

[R4949]

Hello!

Peter was in a band called METRO - they had three albums: Metro, Furure Imperfect and New Love. Correspondence was Peter's solo Album, produced by Georg Kajanus (from DATA and Sailor - check him out on YouTube). America in My Head was on the METRO album Future Imperfect and released as a 45 - this is the 12-inch version.

[cruithneuladh]

I found this amazing song on a 12 inch vinyl single in a closing down record shop, for 10p, one of the best records I ever bought in my life, brings back such happy memories of the eighties

[bissia]

Which Christine? Also a musician?

[triciapowers]

Hello David (a.k.a R4949), I just shared the following story with our friend, Peter Godwin, and now I'd like to share it with you: Always been an admirer of this video because it's such an effective pastiche of post-World War II Americana. However, it also appeals to me on a personal level because at 4:25, one can see what appears to be a Bell helicopter. Most of the U.S. helicopters that flew over Vietnam were made at the former Bell Aerospace plant, close to where I live.

[imaflaneur]

This record is actually by Metro, not Peter Godwin, which is why you won't find it on his later solo recordings. Duncan Browne had left the band years before this was written, so ditto.

Time for some credit to the rest of the band, I think. Lovely bass line from Tony Adams and hats off to Martin Lawrence, Strawberry Studios and the 10cc crew. The Richard Burgess mix cost a lot of dosh and just made the kick drum louder

( well, he was man of the moment with Spandau Ballet aaaaaaaaargh )

[cruithneuladh]

R4949, Thanks for that, you wouldn't really have guessed it from the contrast between "Journey" and "America", would you?

What are these guys doing these days, any idea?

[petergodwin13]

You know Peter Godwin has a new band called Nuevo with an album called "Sunset Rise". You can hear it on their website!