Keats

Origin: London (England)

KEATS

David Paton - Ian Bairnson - Colin Blunstone - Pete Bardens - Stuart Elliott

Discography:

st - 1984 (with lyrics)

Notes: 

- A few months back, Eric Abrahamsen reviewed an early 70's album by singer Colin Blunstone. A talented Englishman, he turns up on this mid-80's project called Keats, which is a collection of Alan Parsons Project alumni doing AOR. Not forgetting the alumni of UK popsters Pilot (Bairnson and Paton) - a band well known to 70's pop fans as well as Eric! Produced by Alan Parsons himself, the personnel were inspired to come together in conjunction with APP vocalist Eric Woolfson - seeing an opportunity to create a band situation outside of the APP environment. Despite the connotation with the famous English poet John Keats, the band was named after Woolfson's favourite restaurant of the same name. Other key figures included former Camel keyboardist Pete Bardens, and session man Richard Cottle (refer John Parr). -

(Notes by http://gdm.glorydazemusic.com/articles.php?article_id=1894)

- Keats was an Alan Parsons Project offshoot featuring vocalist Colin Blunstone, guitarist Ian Bairnson, bassist David Paton, and drummer Stuart Elliott, as well as Camel keyboardist Pete Bardens, who achieved success later with new age albums. Parsons produced Keats, but the songs are slicker than the more musically and lyrically adventurous Alan Parsons Project albums. That's saying something considering the highly polished sonic glaze Parsons gave his own work. Highlights include "Heaven Knows," "Fight to Win," and "Walking on Ice." -

(Notes by http://www.allmusic.com/album/keats-mw0000615738)