Internationals

Acidic Ghanaian highlife meets funk on this legendary 1978 set that sounds like fusion from another dimension. Historic!

After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two Internationals killed respectively and France eight. Germany topped the list with nineteen.

Among the million plus British and Empire soldiers that fell in the slaughter of The Great War were an elite band of International Rugby players.

The quality of Spring’s also-rans is exemplified by this CD’s opening track. Act 1’s Goodbye Love (We’re Through) was the B-side to that group’s early 70s discotheque hit Tom The Peeper and I remember buying the Mercury 45, hammering it to death in my humble bed-sit, but foolishly neglecting to investigate the beguiling flip.