Producer: Del Newman - 1974

• Clog Dancer

• Money Love

• The Moon Over Malibu

• Mickey Dollar Dreams

• Goodbye Surprise

• Pinball

• KinoTata

What an incredible debut record. How did this remain so unnoticed?

There are some tunes on this that I especially like: the song "Pinball" is something I'd really never heard before looking into BP's other albums, discovering it years after it was a modest hit. It reached #22 in the British pop charts in 1974, and is the song that most people are looking for when they stumble onto this site. Weird that I cannot recall ever hearing it once.

"Interview/Also in the Limelight" focuses on fame, with some really interesting spoken pieces ("I love to play / Like I love to lie / Because it's a degree of truth / And play is a degree of yourself...") and then the song finishes with a beautiful multipart overdubbed intertwining melody.

And, of couse, if there's a "KinoTata," then there must've been a "Wrong KinoTata!" The words and music are credited to Martin Duncan, who helped write the lyrics to about half of the other tunes on the record, and then went on to contribute to tunes on the other discs as well. "Moon," "Mickey," and "Interview/Also" are credited as part of Lotte's Elektrik Opera Film, which wasn't a film at all, but a stage musical about Hollywood that BP and Duncan did together.

• Check out the movies that folks have made for his various songs. Pretty interesting.

• Here are the complete lyrics for the album.

ª You wanted to see the original lyric sheet for Changing My Tune? Click here.