14 Things To Think About – CHRIS FARLOWE***

Think/My Colouring Book/Lipstick Traces/Summertime/That’s No Big Thing/Don’t Play That Song/Looking For You/Its All Over Now Baby Blue/I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself/Rockin’ Pneumonia/Why Don’t You Change Your Ways/My Girl Josephine/Yesterday/Don’t Just Look At Me

Sixties British blues stalwart Chris Farlowe achieved his only major album success with 14 Things To Think About, which omits his chart topping cover of The Rolling Stones' song Out Of Time. (UK:19)

"Chris Farlowe's debut LP for Immediate Records actually offers one a lot to think about and even more to enjoy, while pondering how this white Englishman could pour forth such convincing gutbucket soul. One of the finest soul albums to come out of England (or anywhere else) that year."

"It's very easy to forget that one is listening to a white vocalist working out of England. It was to be Farlowe's most consistent and his most exciting album, and his purest soul album."

"Many people only know Farlowe's work from Out Of Time, but he is one of the most under rated R 'n' B singers of the sixties."

"This guy is fantastic. Possibly one of the finest voices of all time, which is backed up by the songs to match."

"It is strange to think that a man with so many great recordings, and one of the best voices the UK has produced, has had such little commercial success."

"Anyone who remembers the West London club scene in the early 60s will really appreciate this LP. Chris Farlowe never really got the fame he deserved, his music is much better than many of his contemporaries."

"Farlowe depended mostly on outside material and at least half of the songs are better known by other artists, but it's hard to fault any of them."

"Never a pin-up, Chris Farlowe's commercial standing failed to match his critical success. This collection of mid-1960s songs consists of booming, brassy soul-inflected R & B."