Keats... Plus

It is basically the orginal Keats front cover (I assume - I'd never heard of the album until I read your pages!) with "...Plus" tacked on the right hand side about half inch down. So "Keats ...Plus" I guess is right. The track listing is the one you give with "Turn Your Heart Around (single version)" as the 11th track (one second difference in the timing!). "Give It Up" is not on it. Shame really as they were hardly cramped for space!

The "liner" basically includes notes from someone called something like Fraser Massey (who he?) giving the background to the personnel and how the record came about being recorded and what has happened since. In other words they are new liner notes. These are interesting as reading the various extracts on your web pages makes it sound like Woolfson pulled it all together. These notes describe it as Bairnson, Paton and Elliott thinking they sounded good with Blunstone (who they hadn't really met as vocalists were recorded separately by Parsons), and Paton having brought in Bardens having been working with him. Woolfson, who was in Keats restaurant with them at the time they were discussing it, arranged the record contract for them. There is also a double width group photo which allegedly comes from the original CD or LP.

- Graham Johnson


There are four slightly different versions of the Keats album around:
  1. The Original Release
  2. The Original US Release which featured Give It Up in place of Hollywood Heart
  3. Keats... Plus which is the same as the original release with the addition of "Turn Your Heart Around (single version)"
  4. The 1996 Release which features all of the album tracks, plus interviews with Ian Bairnson and Alan Parsons

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Track Listing
Credits
Bass: David Paton
Drums & Percussion: Stuart Elliott
Guitars: Ian Bairnson
David Paton
Keyboards/Synths: Pete Bardens
Richard "Trix" Cottle
David Paton
Saxophones: Richard "Trix" Cottle
Flight Simulator: Ian Bairnson
Space Invaders: Pete Bardens
Backing Vocals: David Paton
Colin Blunstone
Ian Bairnson
Timecode & Linn Cabassa: Alan Parsons
Producer: Alan Parsons
Engineer: Alan Parsons
Tony Richards
Mastering Consultant: Chris Blair
Coordinator: Eric Woolfson
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