Any Trouble
Any Trouble are a British rock band, originating from Crewe, England, best known for their early 1980s recordings.
Early days
Any Trouble's founding members, Clive Gregson (guitar), Tom Jackson (vocals) and Chris Parks (guitar) met at Crewe and Alsager Teacher Training College in 1974. Soon after, Mel Harley (drums) and Phil Barnes (bass) completed the line up.
Initially Any Trouble were a covers band, playing anything they liked, including songs by Bob Dylan, The Band and a selection of American rock and roll numbers. With the advent of punk rock and then new wave, Clive Gregson realised they needed a change of material and started taking songwriting seriously. He explained in a 1999 interview, "We were like a human jukebox and it was obvious to me then if we wanted to get anywhere we needed original songs. I started to take it a bit more seriously then".
After vocalist Tom Jackson left, the band was fronted by rhythm guitarist and songwriter Clive Gregson. The remaining four were the first Any Trouble line-up to record, initially releasing the Gregson composition "Yesterday's Love" as an indie single in 1979. This was picked up by some radio stations and was played by BBC Radio 1 DJs John Peel, Andy Peebles and others in the UK.
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ALBUMS
- Girls Are Always Right: The Stiff Years released: 2002
- Wheels In Motion released: 1981
- Official Live Bootleg LP released: 1980
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- Where Are All the Nice Girls? released:
Girls Are Always Right: The Stiff Years
Released 2002- Yesterday's Love
- Second Choice
- Playing Bogart
- Nice Girls
- Turning Up the Heat
- Romance
- Girls Are Always Right
- Name of the Game (live)
- Working on the Night Shift (live)
- Growing Up (Studio version)
- Trouble With Love
- Open Fire
- As Lovers Do
- Walking in Chains
- Dimming of the Day
- To Be a King
- Eastern Promise
- Wheels in Motion
- Snapshot
- Follow That Car (Studio version)
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- I'll Be Your Man
- Please Don't Stop
- Touch and Go
- Foundations
- Party in the Streets
- Northern Soul
- Man of the Moment
- Time Does Not Heal
- You'd Better Go Home
- Falling in Love With You Again
- I'll Be Your Man (demo)
- First Time Behind the Wheel (Please Don't Stop demo)
- Touch and Go (instrumental)
- Human Heart
- Step by Step
- Open Fire (alternate '84 version)
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by: Any TroubleTouch and Go
Songwriter: (Clive Gregson)
Sometimes, it hurts so much that I wonder.
What kind of spell I am under.
That makes me feel this way.
I know, the ways of love aren't easy.
You try your best to please me.
But I still have to say.
You drain my emotion.
But I will not let it show.
Cause you just want to wind me up.
But you cannot stand to watch me go.
Why do your reactions, always seem so slow.
For tonight, tonight, it could be touch and go.
It seems, that mothers words still linger.
Beware the moving finger.
And keep yourself quite pure.
In time, a man will come and he'll bring.
A promise and a ring.
But till that day be sure.
And hide your emotion.
And never let it show.
Cause you just want to wind me up.
But you cannot stand to watch me go.
Why do your reactions, always seem so slow.
For tonight, tonight, it could be touch and go.
For tonight, tonight, it could be touch and go.