Crest Of A Knave

(1987)

“i was going out and doing Under wraps [1984] live, and i ripped up my throat – i couldn’t sing and i thought maybe time was up and i’d blown my voice completely. i spent a year not doing anything but seeing throat specialists, so it wasn’t until the summer of ’86 that we went out and did some shows, including one in Budapest where i wrote the song of the same name. in america it was the early days of MTV and Steel Monkey got quite a lot of prominence. That album did well in the US and won the Grammy.”