Description
Label Review.
‘Planet Earth’ features the album by Metro from 1976 by the group with the same name. Also includes his two solo albums from 1978 & 1979 - The Wild Places and Streets Of Fire and 6 bonus tracks.
Our Overview.
Duncan Browne was spotted by The Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1967 and signed him to his Immediate label where he released his post-psych chamber pop debut album in 1968. He then re-emerged four years later with the introspective singer/songwriter hit single ‘Journey’ which cracked the UK Top 30.
By the mid-1970s, he had signed to the Transatlantic label as a member of Euro art rock sophisticates Metro, a trio whose calling card, ‘Criminal World’, was covered by David Bowie on his 1983 album Let’s Dance, which went on to sell over ten million copies. Leaving Metro after their debut album, Duncan resumed his solo career, recording two highly- regarded late 1970s albums for Transatlantic (by now re-branded Logo), with The Wild Places and its title track single both reaching the Top Ten in one or two European territories.
This anthology covers his time with Transatlantic/Logo, both with Metro and as a solo performer. It includes the long-lost late 1979 recording ‘China Girl’ (no relation to the Bowie/Iggy Pop song), which now gains its first- ever release in any format.