'Room at the Top' pays homage to 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and Del Shannon at the same time.
tells it – Joe Strummer wanted to return to his roots busking in public. So he and the band journeyed to the north of England to play in the streets. “We slept on a lot of people’s sofas, because we left our credit cards and money behind and lived on what we earned in the street,” Simonon remembers on a Zoom from his home in London. “We had enough to get to the next town and something to eat.”
A couple of years ago, the bassist decided to try busking again, this time alone and around Palma in Mallorca, Spain, near where he spent much of the pandemic lockdowns. Playing live with a rebel spirit led to writing songs that he ultimately decided to share with his longtime friend, singer-songwriter Galen Ayers, the daughter of the late singer-songwriter and Soft Machine bassist Kevin Ayers.
“We met years prior and shared a passion for music, and we just got on as people,” Ayers says, Zooming in from her home in Hydra, Greece. “We’ve known each other on and off probably a decade. I bumped into Paul a bunch of times when I grew up in Deia [Spain] and we have a lot of friends in common.
A new single from the album, “Room at the Top,” showcases their mutual love of Del Shannon’s keyboard sound, Chopin melodies, and scary movies, as well as their natural vocal harmonies as they sing about ascending a shadowy staircase past a veiled painting. “The voices in my head whisper in my ear,” they sing together, as beach-rock rhythms and Shannon-esque keys support them. “The painting of the dead man won’t release my soul.
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