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Kicking off with Bob Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 1977's Graham Bonnet certainly draws upon some classic songwriters, with Goffin and King's Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, a track briefly resurrected by Rainbow at the 1980 Monsters of Rock, Al Green's Tired Of Being Alone and Goodnight And Goodmorning, originally from Hall & Oates' Whole Oats LP.
Produced by Pip Williams and engineered by John Eden, both of whom are probably best known for their work with Status Quo, Graham Bonnet is augmented by no less than seven bonus tracks, including Heroes On My Picture Wall', the B-Side of It's All over Now, Baby Blue.
The following year, Graham would be enlisted to join Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Don Airey and Cozy Powell in Rainbow, and that band's commercial breakthrough album, Down To Earth. Graham Bonnet and No Bad Habits remain fitting testimonials to this singular artist's progress as a singer and musician.
Graham will be the subject of his first authorised biography this summer.