( * ... and Tony Banks )
Chart entered : 18 October 1986
Chart peak : 75
Number of hits : 10
We've already covered where this guy came from ; this was as close as he got to joining his idols Genesis.
Fish was recruited by Banks to write the lyrics and sing on a track to feature in the film he was scoring, Quicksilver. The film was garbage - see my review here. Fish's lyric is typically flowery but vaguely fits the story of a high flying stockbroker who decides to become a bicycle messenger after a financial crash and he sings it with his usual conviction. Tony's track is muscular synth rock with that awful screechy synth sound most successfully employed on Van Halen's Jump which this resembles. It's OK in its way but , lacking any real hooks, sounds like an average album track from Abacab or Duke.
As an incidental note this record may have prevented Fish from joining Genesis when Phil Collins left as he reportedly didn't enjoy working to Bank's overly prescriptive approach.
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