BA Robertson - Initial Success (Expanded Edition)

A hugely successful, award-winning songwriter, singer and musician, BA ROBERTSON enjoyed his most commercially successful period while signed to Asylum Records in the late 70s and early 80s. �During that period, BA was rarely out of the charts with hit singles including �Bang Bang�, �Knocked It Off�, �Kool In The Kaftan�, �To Be Or Not To Be� and, with Maggie Bell, �Hold Me�. �Amazingly, BA�s Asylum recordings have never officially been reissued on CD � until now! �Compiled by the artist himself with remastered sound, new sleeve-notes by Eddie Harrison and each reissue boasting numerous bonus tracks, BA�s Asylum albums have finally been treated to the reissue programme they deserve. �INITIAL SUCCESS was the first of BA�s albums for Asylum. First issued in 1980, it was promoted by the hit singles �Bang Bang� (No. 2), �Knocked It Off� (No. 8), �To Be Or Not To Be� (No. 9) and �Kool In The Kaftan� (No. 17), all of which helped propel the album to No. 32 on the UK charts. �Among the wealth of bonus tracks are three non-LP flipsides, a unique interpretation of �Bang Bang� by the Portsmouth Sinfonia and three recordings captured at a rare live performance by BA at Edinburgh Festival in 2004