Lucille/Five Hundred Miles/If I Were You/Pretty Mary/Trouble In Mind/A World Without Love/Tell Me How/You Don’t Have To Tell Me/Leave My Woman Alone/All My Trials/Last Night I Woke/Long Time Gone
British pop duo Peter & Gordon achieved their only UK album success with their self titled debut LP that was titled A World Without Love in the USA. The Lennon & McCartney song A World Without Love topped the single charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Their softer, gentler style of beat music is best sampled through compilation albums containing their later hit singles, including several Lennon/McCartney songs specially written for them. (US:21 UK:18)
"Peter and Gordon have been unjustly ignored in the annals of rock history in general and in the assessment of the British Invasion in particular."
"Believe it or not, I'm actually a Peter & Gordon fan, and I thought that they released quite a lot of well performed, well recorded music."
"The songs The Beatles threw P & G's way were probably less suited for the Fab Four than for them; the duo really did something good for these songs."
"In their classic hit A World Without Love Peter & Gordon harmonize well to this tune and the lyrics are very well written. The drums and guitars make the melody quite catchy and memorable."
"Peter & Gordon made a splash during the British Invasion, offering beautiful, emotional songs with a softer sound that was a hybrid of the old Everly Brothers, crossed with folk-rock."
"They may have looked like typically cute British invaders, but Peter Asher and Gordon Waller brought a gripping moodiness to their music, which counts almost as protest music in its own right."
"The first thing that struck me on rehearing Peter & Gordon after all these years was how genteel and upper-crust they sound, especially on A World Without Love."
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