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Johnny Warman Walking Into Mirrors
1981 saw the most chart successful period in Johnny Warman's career with the all but universal release of his second solo album "Walking Into Mirrors". The sound was heavily rooted in demos and performances by Johnny's former band 3 Minutes although neither of the two former band members featured on the album. Johnny tried to get the best possible array of musicians for his new album, originally Johnny suggested that Phil Collins play the drums but due to schedule conflict Phil was unavailable and suggested Jerry Marotta who at the time was in Peter Gabriel's backing band. Dave Lawson was brought in to play keyboards. Recording was set to begin to Townhouse Studios' Studio Two "The Stone Room" on the 9th December 1980 which was the day after John Lennon was murdered in New York. Recording started in earnest on time but with the news of the sudden death of John Lennon in the air. By the end of the first day of recording 4 backing tracks had been completed the first track being "Walking Into Mirrors". Over the next two weeks the album continued to develop, Tony Levin invited the musicians to The Record Plant in New York and Larry Fast also became involved in the project before moving the recording once more to the House Of Music in West Orange, New Jersey, during which time the Ampex tape the recordings were made on started to decompose. Prior to leaving for America Johnny had asked Peter Gabriel if he would sing on the album to which he agreed, with the musicians moving to America and then returning to England they had forgotten that Peter had said he would contribute towards the album so were surprised one day when the phone rang informing them that Peter was on his way to the studio. Johnny quickly had to choose which song he wanted Peter's vocals on and decided that he would sing on "Screaming Jets" a song Johnny had written in 25 minutes after watching Apocalypse Now. Johnny had been changing the arrangements on Screaming Jets and his vocal track had his commands on it for changing keys, which when Peter heard it he asked if that was staying and that he would try something like that on his next album. Johnny then decided to keep the vocal track with the commands in as the master vocal track, even though Johnny had had a cold at the time of recording. Johnny, Peter and Larry then worked together on how the track should feel and what noises Peter should make which ended with Peter chanting throughout the record. Peter had arranged prior to coming to the studio that he would take a fee of

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