There are those who were there, that’ll tell you St. Valentine were basically the face of the Sunset Strip through the latter half of the 80s.
The quintet had the look, the over-the-top stage show and more importantly, the hook laden material that the world over associated with Hollywood and that era of music.
Metal Forces magazine’s Kelv Hellrazer praised the band’s musical efforts far and wide, and even went so far as to dub the band’s frontman, Scott Thomas Richards “the best-looking guy in rock.”
The band pulled Dana Strum in to produce a demo (and enlisted the talents of both Jeff Scott Soto and Mark Slaughter to help with backing vocals) and labels were suddenly showing severe interest in having the band members’ signatures on some paperwork with Chrysalis Records leading the way. During the courting process, however, the scene on The Strip went from slick, pretty boy AOR bands to tougher, leather clad types and the band’s dreams were shattered.
Now, thanks to 20th Century Music/Vanity Music Group the demos the band recorded with Dana Strum specifically for A & R and press purposes as well as three live performances from The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, USA, has now become available for fans, those looking to find out more about the music scene back in the day, and rock fans in general.
Produced by Dana Strum and engineered by Mikey Davis and Matt Chidgey, tracks featured are ‘I Need You’, ‘Take Me Away’, ‘I Want It, She’s Got It’, ‘Chances’, ‘Hard Days Long Nights’, ‘Scream Out’, ‘Try’, ‘Scream Out (Live)’, ‘Hold On to the Dream (Live)’ and ‘Hard Days, Long Nights (Live)’.
The self-titled St. Valentine album can ordered as CD by clicking here.
