LIMELIGHT - Limelight - Orig UK LP - NWOBHM Metal Man

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LIMELIGHT

Limelight

UK LP released on Avatar Records in 1981.

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Nottinghamshire's Limelight are primarily associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the early '80s, but they were actually one of several acts whose origins lay quite a bit further back, and whose music just so happened to find its audience during this golden era for heavy music. In fact, brothers Mike (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards) and Glenn Scrimshaw (guitar, bass) started writing songs together as far back as 1967, spending the next few years playing with numerous long forgotten groups (and releasing a pair of obscure singles in 1972) before hooking up with drummer Pat Coleman and becoming Limelight in 1974.

By then, the Scrimshaw family home had been outfitted with a serviceable studio, which allowed the versatile trio to start working on their demos while playing clubs all over the North of England, then Europe and, amazingly, Australia -- all without the benefit of a record contract. When they finally chose to seek one out with tiny independent Future Earth Records, though, Limelight found themselves thrust into the outer reaches of the NWOBHM maelstrom thanks to their serendipitously named 1980 single, "Metal Man". Not without reason, either, since the band's technically accomplished brand of heavy rock with progressive overtones was certainly different, but not worlds apart from, the sounds of definitive NWOBHM acts like Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, and Saxon, with whom Limelight toured for several months that year.

As if that weren't enough activity, Limelight also managed to record their eponymous first album in 1980, although its paltry initial release through a struggling Future Earth was soon out-distributed by a 1981 reissue on the slightly less bankrupt (for the moment) Avatar Records, and infamously packaged in a putrid Day-Glo green cover. Its more progressive, hard rock-leaning songs -- though largely accomplished and engaging in and of themselves -- also revealed Limelight's true stylistic colours to their burgeoning metal-hungry audience. So when they once again ran into record label troubles via Avatar's collapse, and then dared flirt with even more radio-friendly sounds on 1982's UFO-like "Ashes to Ashes" single, Limelight's brief acceptance among the heavy metal faithful quickly evaporated.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Going Home

Knife In Your Back

Mamma (I Don't Wanna Lose Ya)

Man Of Colours

Side Two

Metal Man

Walk On Water

Don't Look Back

Released on 'Avatar Records' in 1981

Catalogue No. AALP 5005

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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