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I would describe Paul Carrack as one of the world’s favorite singers. For the last dozen or so years, Carrack has appeared on a number of pop music’s best singles, starting in 1974, when Carrack’s bar band Ace became a one-hit wonder with “How Long.”
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PAUL CARRACK CATCHES UP WITH LIFE by Billy Cioffi
I would describe Paul Carrack as one of the world’s favorite singers. For the last dozen or so years, Carrack has appeared on a number of pop music’s best singles, starting in 1974, when Carrack’s bar band Ace became a one-hit wonder with “How Long.” After three albums, Ace couldn’t even come close to their initial splash and the band folded. At that point, Carrack became a respected sideman, touring and recording throughout the mid-’70s with Frankie Miller and Roxy Music. Carrack has always been a respected member of the British rock scene, in particular that hardedged brand of R&B blokes that hung together and emerged from the grungy pub scene of .the early ’70s. Those early pub bands consist of many of the British pop hierarchy, including Nick Lowe, Graham Parker and all the various members of the Rumour. It was to the pubs and the studios that Dave Edmunds vanished after Love Sculpture, his ’60s model, crashed and burned. It’s sort of the English version of the good of boy scene in Nashville.