Love's A Prima Donna

Musicians:

All Keyboards - Duncan Mackay

Bass Guitar - George Ford

Drums - Stuart Elliott

Lead Guitars - Jim Cregan

Percussion - Lindsey Elliott

Lead Vocals And Electric Guitar On

'Give Me More' - Steve Harley

 

Recorded June, July, August and September 1976 at Abbey Road. Engineer - Tony Clark assisted by Pat Stapley. Sleeve Design, Photography - Mick Rock. Outer Sleeve Art Direction - Julie Harris. Front Sleeve Colouring - John Harwood. Inner Sleeve Direction - Mick Rock

All Songs written by Steve Harley except 'Here Comes The Sun' which was written by George Harrison

The choir arrangements for 'Seeking A Love' (parts one and two) are by Wilf Gibson who also arranged and conducted the orchestral 'Sidetrack II'. All three titles feature the English Chamber Choir. Wilf also scored the string parts for 'Compared With You'. 'GI Valentine' features the EMI voice vocoder and Yvonne Keeley. Tony Rivers arranged the vocal backing for 'Compared With You', 'Love's A Prima Donna' and 'Carry Me Again', and sang same parts with John Perry and Stuart Calver. The vocal backing of 'Give Me More' features Jo Partridge, who also played guitar and sang back-up on 'Here Comes The Sun'. 'Is It True What They Say' Choir including Kevin, Eddie and Richard.

Love's A Prima Donna entered the UK album charts 26th November 1976. It reached no.28 and stayed in the charts for 3 weeks. Here Comes The Sun c/w Lay Me Down EMI2505 released as a single and entered the charts 31st July 1976. It reached no.10 and stayed in the charts for 7 weeks. (I Believe) Love's A Prima Donna c/w Sidetrack 1 EMI2539 entered the charts  6th November 1976. It reached no.41 and stayed in the charts for 3 weeks.