As silk hearted

It was in the Beatles exploded, so in 1963, when located in the village Send merged in the immediate vicinity of the town Woking in Surrey / England three 13-year-old school friends to form a band. Later, they became the Quartet, to The Senders, The Pink Bears called (!) And then The Late. They played songs by Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Searchers and The Hollies to and were happy with it. Later she attended Billy J. Kramer, who had 1963-1965 a half dozen big hits on his club tours.

When they finally were offered a record deal with Transatlantic, The Late were therefore already a very experienced and seasoned band. It urged them to put on their own compositions and again to change their name. So they adopted the name Unicorn and began to write.

Ten songs were, in 1971 the way to the extremely optimistic titled debut album UPHILL ALL THE WAY found, including but then only four of his own, who had written all her gifted composer Ken Baker. They were joined by tracks from Neil Young, Gerry Rafferty, John Stewart, Joe Cocker, James Taylor and Jimmy Webb.

In hindsight, it is difficult to understand why UPHILL ALL THE WAY back then rather went down, because this disc was living by the excellent musicianship of the band and their beautiful vocal harmonies, which not only successful British bands like The Hollies, The Tremeloes, The Marmalade or, oriented also to the Strawbs in rare, some 'progressive' moments, but also to Crosby, Stills & Nash from the USA. Others say, to hear even the Byrds influences out what I however can not really understand. Perhaps the success in the UK would have been greater if the plate would have appeared in the late sixties and not in the first glam rock 1971?

Between 1974 and 1977 Unicorn publish three more unsuccessful studio albums (BLUE PINE TREES, TOO MANY CROOKS and ONE MORE TOMORROW) before the band decided to let it go.

The new CD edition of UPHILL ALL THE WAY contains four very nice bonus tracks, including the excellent single "Cosmic Kid" / "All We Really Want to Do". Altogether one gets here fourteen tracks with just one hour of play on offer. And just in depressive times like these puts the music of Unicorn as silk heart. One should the CD by the way quite heard in quite a good volume to a good investment, because that increases the enjoyment of the transparent production of Hugh Murphy, and the neighbors are doing well not too scared. Who knows, maybe it will ring even at the door; but only to ask curious what you there is currently listening to, and whether one might make a copy of them. :-)