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The band's bassist, George Ford, had died in 2007. The tour marked the first time that the line-up had played together since 1976. On the tour, the band performed two sets at each show, one featuring a selection of tracks from Harley and the band's career, and the second featuring The Best Years of Our Lives in its entirety.
Bass player George Ford (a.k.a. Sweetnam, Sweetman, or Sweetnam-Ford) became a session musician, and worked with Welsh singer-songwriter Meic Stevens, Doris Troy, Medicine Head, Peter Skellern, and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel among others in the 1970s.
Tim Renwick plays both the acoustic lead and electric lead and George Ford plays bass. Parsons had Phil Kenzie add the alto saxophone part of the song—and by doing so transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.
George Ford – bass guitar, backing vocals; Duncan Mackay – keyboards, string arrangement on "Black or White" Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion; Lindsay Elliott – percussion; Additional musicians. Patricia Paay – backing vocals (track 3) Yvonne Keeley, Barry St. John – backing vocals (tracks 3, 5)
George Ford – bass guitar, backing vocals; Stuart Elliott – drums; Additional personnel. Tina Charles, Martin Jay, Yvonne Keeley, Linda Lewis, Liza Strike – backing vocals; Steve Harley, Alan Parsons – producers; Alan Parsons – mixing, engineer; Gary Edwards, Peter James – tape operators; Chris Blair – mastering
George Ford - bass; Neil Lancaster - backing vocals; Chas Mills - backing vocals; Peter Moss - bass, fuzz bass; Graham Smith - harmonica; Pete Wingfield - keyboards; Peter Wood - keyboards, accordion; Technical. Alan Parsons - engineer, string arrangement on "Apple Cider Re-Constitution" Peter James - engineer; Hipgnosis - sleeve design ...
The shows in 2010 were marketed as an 'Acoustic Set', as they were the first acoustic shows since 2004. This format was phased out in 2020 - in order to promote Harley's new album Uncovered- in favour of a revived 4-man line-up, though with David Delarre on lead guitar, and Oli Hayhurst on double bass, with Harley and Wickens reprising their ...
"Mr. Raffles (Man, It Was Mean)" was released as the follow-up single to "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" which reached number one in the UK in February 1975.After The Best Years of Our Lives had reached the UK top 5 in March, "Mr. Raffles" was released in May.