Keats (Band)

Keats was a band project, which was launched in 1983 to life and very much on the initiative of Eric Woolfson, co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project, declined. Woolfson wanted to give many years of accompanying musicians the opportunity, from the shadow of Project - makers ( he and Alan Parsons ) come forward and develop your own band profile.

Members of Keats were David Paton, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott and to listening on multiple Project panels singer Colin Blunstone, formerly of the zombies. Blunstone it was he who introduced the keyboardist Peter Bardens (from Camel Group ) as the fifth member.

The musical style was based very much on the albums by Alan Parsons Project, but they were the songs that had been written entirely by the band themselves, more straightforward and mostly rocky. When it set out to find a name for the group ( and the album ), you simply chose the name of the London pub, where some band members every evening after work in the studio met Keats. The name thus goes back not just to the English poet John Keats. Producer and sound engineer, the first and only plate was - unsurprisingly - Alan Parsons. As a guest musician, you got with the keyboard player and saxophonist Richard Cottle another Project musicians.

Tensions within the band between Paton, Bairnson and Elliott on the one hand and Blunstone and Barden's other hand, and the commercial failure led in 1984 to a rapid end of Keats.

Discography

• Single: Turn your heart around ( 1984)

• Album: Keats ( 1984, republished in 1996, with a bonus track and an interview with Ian Bairnson and Alan Parsons on the history of Keats )

• Rock band
• English band