In my head Atlantic Starr are filed as a 70s band as that is when I first heard them. But in truth most of their output came in the 80s and they hit it big commercially in the mid 80s.
Three of their songs have lodged themselves permanently in my memory to the extent that I can replay them in my head at will. Those songs are When Love Calls, Circles, and this one, Silver Shadow.
.. Pause .. Hmm, have I featured one of these songs before here? … opens a tab to check … yes I have.
Way back in 2011. I featured a Youtube clip of Silver Shadow because, as I said at the time, I couldn’t believe I had never had a copy of it. Well I finally picked up a copy a few weeks ago, and I did so because I was spurred on by recently playing Circles a few times (you can’t play these songs just once, they are infectious), which was the other track I featured back then. That 2011 post was published on the 29th October which, weirdly, was the birthday of one of my old flames – and she had the album that When Love Calls was on and I remember borrowing it at the time (I gave it back eventually) - and, somewhat weirdly, Mrs. Darce’s birthday is the 30th October. I must be attracted to Scorpios.
Silver Shadow is a gorgeous track. It was released in 1985, but I had it fixed in my mind it was from earlier in the 80s. I think it must have sounded a bit out of time in 1985 when soul was becoming increasingly bright and shiny, and poppy. It has an ethereal feel to it and, from memory, there was only one other track on the album it came from – As the Band Turns – that really approached it’s feel.
Atlantic Starr – Silver Shadow 1985
RIP Wayne Lewis, a founding member of Atlantic Starr who passed away earlier this year (June 5th), he was only 68.
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