'Seven' is the lucky number for music fans of Beatles-style pop ... a 'must have' album of seven superbly crafted new songs to be revealed on the seventh day of the seventh month ... by a true Birmingham music hero!
'Seven' is the latest album by Dave Scott-Morgan, hit songwriter and former guitarist with the legendary Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), performed with his multi-talented music creration, MOrganisation.
Seven is an irresistible roller coaster ride through latter day Beatlesque pop, drawn from different wells and different times, meticuloulsy honed by Dave Scott-Morgan and reflecting his influences and rich wealth of music knowledge and experiences gained through working with some of Birmingham's best loved bands, including The Move, Magnum, Tandy Morgan band and, of course, tripping the light fantastic with ELO!.
Seven includes contributions from Birmingham legends including Tony Clarkin (Magnum), the late Carl Wayne (The Move) and ELO keyboardist and co-founder, Richard Tandy..
Dave hard-wires the music and heads up the cast of MOrganisation for this new album, whose collective ages span five decades of pop & rock influences and styles. This creative tribe have also been wowing audiences up and down the country with their absorbing set lists of rock ‘n’ roll classics, quintessential ELO hits and Dave's original songs... all laced with nostalgic anecdotes of his artistic influences, meeting musical legends and writing a hit record..
Dave Scott-Morgan's name jumps out of books, websites, blogs and Facebook pages dedicated to rock & pop thanks to his work with ELO during one of the most memorable periods of the band's illustrious history. Dave played guitar, Vocoder and sang backing vocals during the world tour for ELO's iconic Time album, before lending his voice to the band's follow-up album, Secret Messages and later performing on ELO maestro, Jeff Lynne's first solo album, Armchair Theatre. .
Dave also formed the Tandy Morgan Band with ELO's Richard Tandy in the mid Eighties, whose recorded output includes the Earthrise album – a favourite with ELO fans the world over and which has recently generated renewed excitement with its re-release. Fans also still lovingly recall the Jeff Lynne-produced Tandy Morgan single, Action, which dominated the radio airwaves throughout the summer of '86.
Dave Scott-Morgan grew up just as the rock & roll boom took hold: “I found myself in the melting pot of young fellas strumming guitars and singing, and having a whole load of fun to boot. Birmingham in the Sixties was a seething hotpot of groups."
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A proficient guitarist, bass player and burgeoning songwriter, Dave's first break came with the Mayfair Set - one of the top local bands to emerge from the late-'50s British beat boom and whose members included ELO's Richard Tandy plus Trevor Burton and Keith Smart, who would go on to join The Move and Wizzard respectively.
Dave's ten-year tenure with acclaimed Brum band, The Ugly's, saw him signed up by Move lead singer, Carl Wayne as a composer for his publishing company, which in turn led to The Move recording two of his songs: Something became the flipside of the group's Number One classic Blackberry Way (the first ever record broadcast on BBC Radio 1) and This Time Tomorrow was the B-side of Curly. Dave also penned the huge European hit, Hiroshima, performed by both Wishful Thinking (1969) and later, by Sandra.
He joined iconic Birmingham hard rock outfit, Magnum, as bassist / singer, just as they were starting out in the early 70s.
Dave Scott-Morgan is both 'Jack' and 'master' of most trades when in comes to making great music.... singer, guitarist, songwriter, band leader and more. "I’ve become a record company and a publisher too. As well as all that I’m down in the boiler room doing my proper job – writing, recording, playing gigs and loving every minute of it! I record all my songs at my home studio, affectionately known as Grimm Doo" (Dave Scott-Morgan)
That's not all! When Dave's not making music he teaches people to fly aeroplanes at Wellesbourne airfield near Stratford-on-Avon.
Seven, the latest album by Dave Scott-Morgan's MOrganisation, is out now.
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