By May 2021 David Longdon’s second solo album was coming together nicely. “The first sessions went well,” Longdon enthused to this writer at the time. “It buoyed me up. One of the songs is a rocker called Watch It Burn, which is up-tempo and heavy in places. Another one’s called There’s No Ghost Like An Old Ghost and, again, it’s a much darker thing. It’s not like Big Big Train, not ‘optimistic, we can get through this’, you know? It’s more realistic, more me I suppose, as a solo album should be. It’s more reflective of my personal tastes. It’s embryonic at the moment but it’s moving along the way.”
Theo Travis had just sent him the smokey sax parts for There’s No Ghost Like An Old Ghost and Longdon was delighted with them. He’d suggested that Travis channel Dick Parry’s horn work on The Dark Side Of, and Travis had totally nailed it. Already in the can was a lush, John Barry-like string part bound for the classy tune , the players recorded at Abbey Road during a BBT orchestral session a few years earlier.
