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Viva St Moritz! - Destiny 1983 Full Album


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Performed by Viva St Moritz!

Music and Lyrics by Cliff McAulay

Vocals by Cliff McAulay and Victoria Harrap

Produced by Cliff McAulay at Plum Studios

Films by Victoria Harrap

All of the songs on this album were written and performed in the early 1980s when Cliff bought two synthesisers: a Korg PS 3100 and a Korg MS10 and became obsessed with making electronic music. After a gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall performing under the stage name of 'Simon Novello', Cliff was approached by Tony Wilson (the renowned TV Presenter and music entrepreneur) who arranged a residency for him at Manchester's Legend nightclub.

Performing twice weekly on Thursday and Friday evenings, 'Simon Novello' was supported at Legend (known locally as Legends), by an aptly named robotic dance troupe called \"Robotix\" and the songs 'If You Should', Dreams Are All You Left Me' and \"Going Mad' were great favourites with the club's regular audience of synth pop devotees.

'Can't Stop The Beat', 'Travelling Man' and 'Got To Get Yourself Together' were written at the request of the management team for iconic performer and much-missed singer Divine. Cliff flew to New York to present the songs and accompany Divine on a round of personal appearances at New York nightclubs including Studio 54.

'The Real Thing' was recorded at studios in London and released under the New Age record label under the name 'The Crowd'. This single received BBC Radio One airplay and was championed by John Peel.

'Don't Say It's Wrong' with it's timeless theme of misunderstanding and reconciliation, was first recorded in 1983 at the Vicarage Studios in Delph, Lancashire. At that time these studios were owned by members of the band Barclay James Harvest. The 1983 recording of this song featured two members of Barclay James Harvest: Mel Pritchard on drums and John Lees on electric guitar. For the version on this album, Cliff revised the lyrics to make the song a duet.

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