RICHARD PAGE – Peculiar Life (2010)
“The album title pretty much sums it up for me” RICHARD PAGE says with a wry smile. The veteran writer/artist is referring to both his second solo album, “Peculiar Life” and his bifurcated career, which belies F. Scott Fitzgerald’s contention that there are no second acts in American life.
Page spent the ’80s fronting the bands PAGES and the chart-topping Mr. MISTER before becoming the provider of material for others, in part via his longstanding relationships with producer David Foster.
But functioning purely as a writer for hire “doesn’t scratch the itch of wanting to do your own thing, especially when you have to make compromises”, Page explains of the motivation behind the writing and recording of Peculiar Life, his first album since 1995’s ‘Shelter Me’.
Gathering the all-star core band of drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (Jeff Beck, Sting,), Luis Conte…