(2022) Living Daylights - Let's Live For Today- The Complete Recordings

Review: Led by Garth Watt-Roy and his younger brother (future Blockhead) Norman, five-piece Harlow band Living Daylights signed with Beatles publisher Dick James in 1967. Paired with a studio production team that included Caleb Quaye, the band were given a song that James published, ‘Let’s Live For Today’, as their debut single. Released in April 1967, it entered Radio London’s Fab Forty after being championed by the pirate station’s DJ John Peel. Also issued in America, the song showed significant sales potential, and Dick James decided the band should record an album that would be rushed out if the single became a success. Unfortunately, ‘Let’s Live For Today’ lost out to a cover version by American band The Grass Roots, who scored a US Top Ten hit. Without a hit to support it, the Living Daylights’ album failed to appear, and the band split after a second single failed to find favour. 55 years later, that album finally gains a release, with mono and stereo mixes joined by their UK singles and American and Japanese versions. ‘Let’s Live For Today: The Complete Recordings’ is a vital addition to the pantheon of British psychedelic pop albums from the epochal year of 1967. This release includes a booklet that tells the band’s story for the first time, with quotes from both Garth and Norman Watt-Roy as well as the first-ever accurate band line-up and their tangential link to another Dick James project, Elliots Sunshine.

Track List:

Mono Album - Let's Live For Today-The Complete Recordings 01. Let's Live For Today 02. It's Real (aka I'm Real) 03. Cos I'm Lonely 04. Up So High 05. Say You Don't Mind 06. Jane 07. What'cha Gonna Do About It 08. Getting Better 09. I'll Be Back 10. If I Had My Way 11. Always With Him 12. Baila Maria 13. Let's Live For Today (US Single Edit)

Stereo Album - Let's Live For Today-The Complete Recordings 01. Cos I'm Lonely (Stereo Mix) 02. Up So High (Stereo Mix) 03. Say You Don't Mind (Stereo Mix) 04. Jane (Stereo Mix) 05. What'cha Gonna Do About It (Stereo Mix) 06. Getting Better (Stereo Mix) 07. I'll Be Back (Stereo Mix) 08. If I Had My Way (Stereo Mix) 09. Always With Him (Stereo Mix) 10. Let's Live For Today (Japanese Single Version) [Rechannelled Stereo]

Media Report: Genre: psychedelic rock Country: UK Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits

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