"Christopher Roberts”
Release date of May 5th 2023 from all digital platforms and Bandcamp and available now from John’s Website
John will be releasing the follow up to the critically acclaimed “Fretsore Record” solo album “If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love”, with a new solo album due out on 7th July 2023 called “Tuebrook”.
“Christopher Roberts” is the second release from this album and the follow up to the recently released song “Shadows.”
Recorded at Crosstown Studios in Liverpool with Jon Lawton and Pippa Murdie.
“This is an autobiographical song.
When I was in junior school, Christopher Roberts was a school class friend I had.
Being a catholic school and doing our 11 plus exam
Everyone in our class ended up going to different senior schools.
I never saw him again once we moved on and I often wonder how life treated him, did he marry, has he a family?
I sometimes think that as over 50 years have passed, I could be sitting facing him in a pub or next to him at a bus stop and be totally unaware it is him.”
I was tempted to call my new album “63” after my age like Adele does with her albums but I bottled it out
because it looked a bit naff on the cover plus I’d be questioned where the other 62 albums where in my catalogue”
Incidentally the father and child recordings at the beginning of the song talking about school is actually me and my Dad from about 1964.