{"id":18197,"date":"2022-12-06T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=18197"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:59:33","slug":"colosseum-2-lucifers-friend-and-lake-former-lead-singer-mike-starrs-long-lost-1973-solo-album-electric-garden-re-released-for-the-first-time-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/colosseum-2-lucifers-friend-and-lake-former-lead-singer-mike-starrs-long-lost-1973-solo-album-electric-garden-re-released-for-the-first-time-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Colosseum 2, Lucifer\u2019s Friend and Lake Former Lead Singer Mike Starrs\u2019 Long Lost 1973 Solo Album, &#8216;Electric Garden&#8217;, Re-Released for the First Time \u2013 OUT NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Starrs is the former lead singer of jazz rock fusionists Colosseum II, Lucifer\u2019s Friend and the German band Lake. This is the first ever re-release of his only solo album,&nbsp;<em>Electric Garden<\/em>, with four bonus tracks added.<br>When it was first released in 1973,&nbsp;<em>Electric Garden<\/em>&nbsp;was only available in six European countries and the non-album singles, now included as bonus tracks, were only available in three European countries. This re-release is a \u2018catch-all\u2019 of his 1970s solo releases.<br>The album has been re-mastered by band member Gerry Morris and approved by Mike Starrs and original producer Tony Atkins. The booklet includes two sets of liner notes; the original 1973 notes and retrospective notes newly written by Mike Starrs.<br>All the tracks feature Geoff Whitehorn of Procol Harum on guitar and all but one track includes John Richardson of The Rubettes on drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Starrs said of the re-release:&nbsp;<em>\u201cA young man who had his whole life \/ career in front of him. I remember hearing my first single Love Song on Juke Box Jury and they all voted it a hit.&nbsp; Who could ever have imagined that I would be sitting here talking about and reminiscing about my very first album Electric Garden\u2026?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Available now:<\/strong>Amazon CD:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028cd\">https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028cd<\/a><br>Spotify:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028am\">https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028am<\/a><br>Apple Music:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028sp\">https:\/\/geni.us\/ExM028sp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Electric Garden<\/em>&nbsp;is also available directly from Cherry Red:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/mike-starrs-electric-garden-expanded-edition\/\">https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/mike-starrs-electric-garden-expanded-edition\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Starrs is the former lead singer of jazz rock fusionists Colosseum II, Lucifer\u2019s Friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[477,2456,125,51],"class_list":["post-18197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-lucifers-friend","tag-mike-starrs","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18199,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions\/18199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}