Love and Money

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Love and Money
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Years active	1985–1994
Genres	Pop Rock
Members	James Grant Paul McGeechan Bobby Paterson Douglas MacIntyre Gordon Wilson Stuart Kerr

1 Background
2 Debut album
3 Strange Kind of Love
4 The Mother's Boy and Dogs In The Traffic
5 littledeath
6 Bobby Paterson 1956 - 2006
7 Albums
8 Cheap Pearls and Whisky Dreams: Best of (1999)
9 Singles
10 External links

[edit] Background

Love and Money were a rock/soul/funk band formed in 1985 in Glasgow, Scotland. The band consisted of three former members of the band Friends Again ( singer-songwriter and guitarist James Grant, drummer Stuart Kerr and keyboardist Paul McGeechan) along with bassist Bobby Paterson, who replaced Friends Again's Neil Cunningham and who had been a member of Set the Tone, a band previously signed to Island Records in 1983.

In their nine years together they recorded four moderately successful albums, three of which were released in the United States, and had six chart hits in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Debut album

Signing to Phonogram's Mercury Records in the United Kingdom, they recorded "Candybar Express" with production from Duran Duran's Andy Taylor, and this recording became their first hit receiving considerable airplay in the US and reaching number 56 in the UK charts in the spring of 1986. Shortly afterwards they released their debut album "All You Need is Love and Money" produced by Tom Dowd but this failed to chart. In September 1986, the group played an Artists Against Apartheid concert at Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, alongside acts such as The Big Dish and Lloyd Cole.

[edit] Strange Kind of Love

The 1988 follow-up album Strange Kind of Love (which featured Toto's Jeff Porcaro on drums following the departure of Kerr) was overseen by Steely Dan producer Gary Katz and featured the minor hit "Halleluiah Man" which helped to establish a sizeable following for the band. The more restrained production and the band's refined and tight funk sound made the album almost unrecognisable from their earliest work. Further singles "Strange Kind of Love", "Jocelyn Square" and "Up Escalator" all charted, although none could quite break the top 40.

[edit] The Mother's Boy and Dogs In The Traffic

The band, now supplemented by permanent drummer Gordon Wilson and rhythm guitarist Douglas MacIntyre, returned to the studio to record the follow-up, to be entitled "The Mother's Boy", but the songs met disapproval from Phonogram. The release was scrapped and the band returned to the studio. Several of the tracks including album opener "Hubcap to Blue Town" would reappear as b-sides to the singles from the eventual follow-up "Dogs in the Traffic".

"Dogs in the Traffic" is considered by many to be Love and Money's greatest achievement and was included in the All Time Top 100 Scottish Pop and Rock albums in The Scotsman newspaper (at number 30). The album reflected Grant's growing maturity as a writer and the stripped-down arrangements allowed greater emphasis on his lyrics and melodies. The band gave a pre-release performance of the album at Glasgow's City Halls in Candleriggs. Three further singles were released, "Winter", "My Love Lives In A Dead House", and the "Wishing Waters" EP on which live favourite "Looking For Angeline" was lead track.

[edit] littledeath

Due primarily to lack of promotion the record sold 25,000, one tenth of the sales for "Strange Kind of Love" and the group were subsequently released from Mercury. Love and Money's fourth album, "Littledeath" (1993) was released independently on Iona Gold records and featured the single "Last Ship on the River". Bassist Bobby Paterson split from the band to form a career in bar managemet and did not feature on this album. The remainder of the band went their separate ways in 1994, although they did regroup for one final gig at Barrowlands, on 23 December 1994 entitled "Love and Money: RIP" where older hits "River of People", "Halleluiah Man" and "Candybar Express" were performed for the first time in years, alongside newer material and a cover of Bowie's "Ziggy".

[edit] Bobby Paterson 1956 - 2006

Robert Armstrong Paterson was born in 1956 in Carntyne, Glasgow and in the 1970s was the bassist for the group Cado Belle, which also featured the singer Maggie Riley. In the 1980s he recorded with the bands Sandy McClellan and the Backline and also with Set the Tone, where a number of singles where released on Island Records. These records, such as "Rap Your Love" and "Dance Sucker", became club hits at the time, with the later record being given a remix by Francois Kevorkian.

After being involved in the original version of Primal Scream, he became a member of Love and Money, where he stayed for 9 years.

After leaving the band before their last album Littledeath was released, he moved into bar and club management, overlooking Big Beat owned clubs such as Expo and The Tunnel Club as well as being involved in the Glasgow hotel Saint Jude's.

More recently he formed a new band with Bobby Bluebell from 1980s hitmakers The Bluebells, called the Poems.

He died in Glasgow on the 23rd July 2006.