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There are a lot of rumours going on of those two records. Steve signed a contract for three albums for RAK but before the release of an album the company went bust. Early 1984 he went with Mickey Most, (Mud, Suzi Quatro, Boy George) and producer of several Harley-songs, Andrew Gold and Stuart Elliot into the RAK-studios in London. Steve than had written as good as a complete new album. This album contains Sophistication (played on his tour in 1989), Irresistible (albumversion), Oh How Happy (Edwin Starr), Rain In Venice (exactly the same version as on Yes You Can), New-fashioned Way (modern dance (bit up tempo rhythm version (bad, really if I may say so), The Lighthouse (about the same but full of samples and synthesisers. Instead of the violin at the end they used a sampled saxophone), Star For A Week (just about the same) and Promises Promises (the original Stiletto recording which is actually very nice).
Steve played the now called Promises at one of his gigs very beautiful, it did took an awful lot of time to rehearse and finally it ended on Yes You Can.
As the recordings on El Grand Senor has past a bit over time Steve dropped the rest of the album. But in 1991 he suddenly had new musical ideas and he decided to rehearse a few for his tour. New-fashioned Way f.i. was sorted and Steve told the musicians to listen to it just for a very brief time. Than they all worked out Steve's new version which became one of the highlighted songs of the tour. He recorded it again and another song for Yes You Can is finished.
The song, "Oh, How Happy" disappeared from the buhne. He played it once at a festival in a South American style. It did swing, now doubt but there was no place for it on any album at all.
Star For A Week has a lot of versions. Nearly every tour he changed the music, it started in a soft-rock version, then a version where the accent lays on the melody, then a version with triumph and glory. The victories of a young man saying the truth and let the world know he is also a part of it. Drums had the accent through the whole song. Now it's released as a myth. Well thought!
In 1989 Steve, Duncan, and Jim where working in the Point-studios in London. Steve wrote 4 new songs, Dancing On The Telephone, When I'm With You, The Alibi and Limbs Of Man.
Three of them have been chosen for his comeback tour and only two of them have been re-recorded for the album Yes You Can.
After the tour Steve really got pressed by the audience to release an album with all these songs. It took nearly two years to convince him and finally he released Yes You Can, an album with some old songs, filled with some new ones. There was Victim Of Love and Fire In The Night. Mainly written while touring.
At the RAK-period he wrote and released other songs such as Heartbeat Like Thunder, Warm My Cold Heart, Lucky Man and Such Is Life. Mickey wanted to release Heartbeat Like Thunder, Steve took an oldie he wrote in the early eighties Warm My Cold Heart for it on the B-sides.
RAK ended, the songs stayed their time.
Hans Peters