Everlasting Love (from The Everlasting Love Affair) by Love Affair but not by Love Affair
Sunday musical excursion #28.
Image: Love Affair. Left to right: Rex Brayley, Steve Ellis, Mick Jackson, Lynton Guest, Maurice Bacon1
1967. Walthamstow. An empty warehouse, and a band: Love Affair. Lead singer: Steve Ellis, age 17. Rex Brayley, age 20, on guitar; Maurice Bacon, age 16, on drums; Michael Jackson (not that one), age 18, on bass; Lynton Guest, age 16, on keyboards. They resented being idolised by teenage girls and called a pop group. Some people have it tough in their teens.
In the video to their 1968 hit single Everlasting Love, you can see them. But you can only hear one of them: lead singer Stephen Ellis, because Love Affair’s version of Everlasting Love proved not to be so very everlasting: CBS Records re-recorded it with session musicians, and Everlasting Love became an everlastingly lovely record of Love Affair’s, even if they mostly had nothing to do with the affair. Later in 1968, CBS included Everlasting Love on Love Affair’s The Everlasting Love Affair album.
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Anyhow, in this Sunday’s musical excursion, what you see is not what you hear.
Also starring in this vid are representations of Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Georges Pompidou and a wee girl from the Pears Soap Company. Oh, and Charlie Chaplin. Everything’s fake. But it’s still a great single. No, I don’t know who the bird dancing with Charlie is.
I have to admit one thing: this post fulfils a lifelong query I have had in my own mind, and that is: “What on Earth is he singing in the opening line?”
Everlasting Love
Written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden
Performed by Love Affair
From their 1968 album The Everlasting Love Affair
Clipped from: By Eric Koch for Anefo - http://proxy.handle.net/10648/ab3a5bde-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65552652