BILL NELSON

Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam CHERRY RED

JMN

Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s near-visionary post-band solo release, much expanded. Though the skull-guitar cover art for Be Bop Deluxe’s 1974 debut Axe Victim once led US tour promoters to pair the band with Ted Nugent, Bill Nelson was never that guy. Yes, he was a guitar hero, but his art school background and love of jazz and surrealist polymath Jean Cocteau helped inspire a wider vision. After the sonically transitional LP that was Be Bop’s 1978 swan song Drastic Plastic, Nelson formed Red Noise, whose debut album Sound-On-Sound was hip to Kraftwerk, Talking Heads and Belgian synthpoppers Telex. Nelson was shapeshifting; a moving target. Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam was originally intended to be Red Noise’s second album, but major upheavals at Nelson’s then-label EMI led to him…

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