Radio Stars

May 10th–13th 1976 saw Jet, featuring Andy Ellison, Martin Gordon, Ian MacLeod and Chris Townson along with the help of Trevor White co-producing, start recording their final 4 songs at Island Studios. They all knew this time that failure would mean the end of the band. The songs were “Don’t Cry Joe” about an imaginary movie, “Dirty Pictures” wasn’t about anything else but, “Sail Away” about going on ones holidays, and “Antler” was about luggage. Island Records turned the songs down and the band folded. Chris called it a day and became an artist, Ian went back to Southend playing in local bands and Martin joined Ian North’s Radio during October. The band only did two gigs, one at The Nashville in London supporting Ultravox on December 7th and another at The Speakeasy. As well as being in Ian’s Radio, Martin was also thinking about a solo career and some very early demo’s were actually done in John Hewlett’s Mother in laws house on December 12th. This was with Paul Simon (also in Ian North’s Radio) on drums and Andy on harmonica & backing vocals. Martin was doing the lead vocals, plus he also played guitar and piano, as well as bass on these demo’s. Songs done at this session was “Wasting Time”, “Hole In The Head” (early version of “Don’t Waste My Time”) and “No Russians In Russia”. While all this was going on, Andy was wandering around London trying to find a good home for the Jet demos. Then, just by chance, he wandered into ‘Rock On’ record shop in Camden Town and suddenly realised that there was a small record company called Chiswick Records upstairs. Boss Ted Carroll listened to the 4 songs and was really knocked out with “Dirty Pictures” and wanted to release it straight away. 

Songs For Swinging Lovers (1977)

01 - Good Personality

02 - Is It Really Necessary

03 - The Beast Of Barnsley

04 - Nervous Wreck

05 - Nothing Happened Today/Eric

06 - Don't Waste My Time

07 - Arthur Is Dead Boring

08 - Macaroni 'N' Mice

09 - Nice Girls

10 - Talking 'Bout You

11 - Buy Chiswick Records

Stop It 7'' (1978)

01 - No Russians In Russia

02 - Box 29

03 - Johnny Mekon

04 - Sorry I'm Tied Up

Holiday Album (1979)

01 - Radio Stars

02 - Boy Meets Girl

03 - Baffin Island

04 - (I Got Dem Old) Sex In Chains Blues Pt. 1

05 - Sitting In The Rain

06 - The Real Me

07 - Rock 'N' Roll For The Time Being

08 - Norwegian Wood

09 - Get On A Plane

10 - I'm Down

11 - No Russians In Russia

12 - It's All Over

13 - Goodnight

2 Minutes, Mr. Smith (1982)

01 - Radio Stars

02 - Good Personality

03 - Beast Of Barnsley

04 - No Russians In Russia

05 - Don't Waste My Time

06 - Dirty Pictures

07 - Macaroni & Mice

08 - From A Rabbit

09 - Sitting In The Rain

10 - Horrible Breath

11 - The Real Me

Somewhere There's A Place For Us (2005)

01 - Radio Stars

02 - Dirty Pictures

03 - The Beast Of Barnsley

04 - Nervous Wreck

05 - Boy Meets Girl

06 - My Mother Said

07 - Is It Really Necessary

08 - Arthur Is Dead Boring (Let's Rot)

09 - Johnny Mekon

10 - Good Personality

11 - Dear Prudence

12 - Nothing Happened Today

13 - Eric

14 - Macaroni And Mice

15 - (I Got Dem Old) Sex In Chains

16 - From A Rabbit

17 - Sail Away

18 - It's All Over

19 - I'm Talking About You

20 - Accountancy Blues

21 - Baffin Island

22 - The Ghost Of Desperate Dan

23 - This Is Your Next Life

24 - Sitting In The Rain

25 - Rock 'N' Roll For The Time Being

26 - No Russians In Russia

27 - The Real Me

28 - Somewhere There's A Place For Us

29 - Goodnight

Something For The Weekend (2007)

01 - Box 29

02 - The Beast Of Barnsley

03 - Is It Really Necessary

04 - Elvis Is Dead (Boring)

05 - Johnny Mekon

06 - No Russians In Russia

07 - Nervous Wreck

08 - Dirty Pictures

09 - From A Rabbit

10 - Macaroni 'N' Mice

11 - Good Personality

12 - Eric

13 - Shakin' All Over

14 - Dear Prudence

15 - The Mania Express

16 - Throwaway

17 - My Mother Said

18 - Two Minutes Mr. Smith

1977-1979 (2009)

01 - Radio Stars

02 - Good Personality

03 - The Beast Of Barnsley

04 - No Russians In Russia

05 - Boy Meets Girl

06 - Nervous Wreck

07 - Dirty Pictures

08 - Macaroni And Mice

09 - From A Rabbit

10 - Baffin Island

11 - Box

12 - Dear Prudence

13 - Goodnight

14 - I'm Talking About You

15 - Is It Really Necessary

16 - It's All Over

17 - Let's Rot

18 - My Mother Said

19 - Nothing Happened Today

20 - Sex In Chain Blues Pt 1

21 - Eric

22 - Johnny Mekon

Singles Collection 1977-1982 (2010)

01 - Dirty Pictures

02 - Sail Away

03 - No Russians In Russia

04 - Box 29

05 - Johnny Mekon

06 - Sorry I'm Tied Up

07 - Dear Prudence

08 - Horrible Breath

09 - From A Rabbit

10 - To A Beast

11 - The Beast N°2

12 - Accountacy Blues

13 - The Ghost Of Desperate Dan

14 - My Mother Said

15 - This Is Your Next Life

16 - Somewhere There's A Place For Us

Radio Sessions 1977-1978 (2016)

01 - No Russians In Russia (John Peel Session 05/17/77)

02 - Dear Prudence

03 - Dirty Pictures

04 - Horrible Breath

05 - Is It Really Necessary (John Peel Session 11/07/77)

06 - Don't Waste My Time

07 - The Beast Of Barnsley

08 - Good Personality

09 - Sitting In The Rain (John Peel Session 09/04/78)

10 - Radio Stars

11 - Sex In Chains Blues

12 - Boy Meets Girl

13 - From A Rabbit (Capital Radio Session 05/78)

14 - The Beast Of Barnsley

15 - Dirty Pictures

Thinking Inside The Box (2017)

CD 01 - Songs For Swinging Lovers:

01 - Good Personality

02 - Is It Really Necessary

03 - Beast Of Barnsley

04 - Nervous Wreck

05 - Nothing Happened Today

06 - Eric

07 - Don't Waste My Time

08 - Arthur Is Dead Boring (Let's Rot)

09 - Macaroni 'N' Mice

10 - Nice Girls

11 - Talking 'Bout You

12 - Buy Chiswick Records

CD 02 - Holiday Album:

01 - Radio Stars

02 - Boy Meets Girl

03 - Baffin Island

04 - (I've Got Dem Old) Sex In Chains Blues (Again Mama) Part 1

05 - Sitting In The Rain

06 - The Real Me

07 - Accountancy Blues

08 - Rock 'N' Roll For The Time Being

09 - Norwegian Wood

10 - Get On A Plane

11 - I'm Down

12 - No Russians In Russia

13 - It's All Over

14 - Goodnight

CD 03 - Singles & Rarities:

01 - Dirty Pictures

02 - Sail Away

03 - No Russians In Russia

04 - Box 29

05 - Johnny Mekon

06 - Sorry I'm Tied Up

07 - Dear Prudence

08 - Horrible Breath

09 - From A Rabbit

10 - The Beast No.2

11 - Radio Stars

12 - The Real Me

13 - Accountancy Blues

14 - Throwaway

15 - It's All Over (Edit)

16 - My Mother Said

17 - Two Minutes Mr. Smith

18 - I Got The Buzz

19 - The Ghost Of Desperate Dan

20 - This Is Your Next Life

21 - Somewhere There's A Place For Us

22 - The Beast Of Ankara

CD 04 - At The BBC:

01 - Horrible Breath

02 - Dirty Pictures

03 - Dear Prudence

04 - No Russians In Russia

05 - Good Personality

06 - The Beast Of Barnsley

07 - Don't Waste My Time

08 - Is It Really Necessary

09 - Boy Meets Girl

10 - Radio Stars

11 - Sex In Chains

12 - Sitting In The Rain

13 - Don't Waste My TIme

14 - No Russians In Russia

15 - Is It Really Necessary

16 - Box 29

17 - Good Personality

18 - Dirty Pictures

19 - Horrible Breath

20 - Johnny Mekon

Broadcasting To The Nation (2022)

01 - Back In Your Town

02 - Accident

03 - Lets Play Dirty

04 - Big Things

05 - Wall Of Death

06 - Out To Lunch

07 - Scare Me To Death

08 - Blame It On The Young

09 - Jumping

10 - Back In Your Town Again (Version II)

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