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WORLD GOES ROUND, a pop-rock supergroup band who got together in 1989 to record an album that never saw the light of day, will be releasing their full length album of previously undiscovered music – a time capsule of music from pop music’s classic 1980s era – on October 30. The album will be available on all digital formats, and on vinyl, via Viper Records. Their single from the album, “Put It On The Line,” is dedicated to all of the devoted service people around the world during the current Covid climate, will be released on September 25.
With combined credits from such legendary artists as Queen to Supertramp, John Fogerty, Air Supply, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, Quincy Jones, Kenny Rogers, Supertramp, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond, Jeffrey Osbourne, and many more, Frank Musker (co-lead vocals), Elizabeth Lamers (co-lead vocals), Jeff Hull (keyboards/drums/bass guitar) and Marty Walsh (guitar), have written, recorded and performed an immense catalog of iconic music making. Their original producer, multi Grammy Award and Emmy Award winning Tommy Vicari (known for his work with The Oscars, The Emmys, Prince, Billy Idol) recently remastered it, after one of the band members found an old cassette of the recordings. Now, more than 30 years later, the music available for the public to hear. The 10 track album was recorded at Musker’s Laurel Canyon studio in L.A., where the group created powerful pop tunes, matching their creative and musical aspirations – to make a record that was musically inspired by their heroes. Two singles were released earlier this year (“Big House”, “Round The World”), and the songs on the album, although recorded in the 80s, have messages that were relevant then, and are now. The group’s mission was to make socially conscious music, and today, their messages resonate now more than ever.
Says Musker, “It’s amazing to me that not only is this music finally being heard after all this time, but that it sounds so relevant to the momentous times we’re living in even though the songs were written 30 years ago. It’s very gratifying to be able to finish what we started and even more satisfying that people are reacting so positively to our music.”
Adds Walsh, “About a year ago, the producer of World Goes Round, Tommy Vicari, asked me if I had a copy of the project. I dug out a cassette tape of the mixes, put it into my audio player, and recorded it into my studio workstation. As soon as I heard the first song, it was apparent that this project really was something special. I sent the project to Tommy, and then sent it to the rest of the members of WGR, who I had been out of touch with for many years. Everybody was quite floored by the music we had not heard in decades, and a conversation ensued about the possibility of somehow releasing this music.”
Says Jonathan Stuart, founder of Viper Records, “Along the way, I’ve worked with some very talented people, and World Goes Round is no exception. The music speaks for itself.”
Their forthcoming single, “Put It On The Line,” is dedicated to today’s heroes. Says Musker, “It’s a song about overcoming fear and self doubt – emotions common to every single one of us. It is dedicated to all the ordinary every day heroes everywhere who put themselves on the line and in harm’s way each and every day for us – the ones who just turn up come what may and do their duty whatever the cost. It’s for the nurses, the doctors, the health workers, the firemen, the soldiers and to all those who daily overcome resistance and their own perceived limitations. There are no limits to heroism and to what one can achieve.”
Says Musker of the previously released single, “Big House”: “I had visited the Amazon about four times in Peru, Brazil and Venezuela, and was amazed by its pristine beauty, the sheer size of everything and the animal life. When I read that an area of forest equivalent to a thousand football fields was being destroyed at some impossibly rapid rate, I was in despair, and needed to express it in some meaningful way – hence the line ‘In the time it takes to sing this song, Another thousand acres will be gone.” He adds, “It was also a couple of years before the Berlin Wall came down and I had become increasingly aware of the rumblings in the news of refugees fleeing from behind the Iron Curtain and the dangers they faced. They all want the good life we enjoy in the west – and who could blame them? So all these environmental and social things were going on in my head at the time, but when I spoke about them to people in the U.S. and the UK, they seemed completely oblivious. So I got the idea of a bunch of ridiculously hedonistic people living it up in a big mansion up on a hill while down below the world was burning and choking on filthy polluted air. Nero fiddling while Rome burns. As the lyric goes, ‘So we do the dance – take it for granted, you tell the truth – they don’t understand it.’”
WORLD GOES ROUND’S TRACK LISTING INCLUDES:
Rebel Heart (Musker/Hull)
Joy and Pain (Musker/Hull/Lamers)
Great Talker (Musker/Hull)
Put It On The Line (Musker/Walsh)
Once Around the Sun (Musker/Hull)
Round the World (Musker/Jay Cawley/Kim Tyler)
Please Please (Musker/Hull/Walsh)
Can’t Let Go (Must Be Crazy) (Musker/Walsh/Hull)
Putting Down Roots (Musker/Hull)
Big House (Musker/Hull/Walsh)
“What a treat it has been to reconnect with these wonderful, talented players,” says Lamers. “If there is a silver lining to the lockdown it is that we had the time to revisit this project we started so long ago. It’s been an amazing journey!”
Echoes Walsh, “It is quite amazing and gratifying that this work we did back then, and put our heart and souls into, is being released. We are finally letting the world in on World Goes Round!”
