However, instead of dissolving completely, Dave Mason, Craig Hooper, and the newly hired drummer Stefan Fidock continued as a trio, entered a controversial deal with infomercial network turned record label K-tel, and recorded Beautiful – a gorgeous album of EZ listening, melancholic pop covers, and instrumentals composed primarily on their recently acquired Fairlight CMI synthesizer.įidock claimed the idea for the album came from listening to 45’s on the wrong speed to ‘get chords’: “If you do that, you can hear how strong the melody is and what the chord progression is. Multiple failed attempts at mainstream success combined with feverish internal tension within Aussie new wave band The Reels led to the shocking departures of the group’s members in 1981.
Beautiful was ironically the product of a band in complete turmoil.
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