City Boy (band)

They remained friends throughout the years and started writing and recording their early songs in their mid to late teens.

The four of them toured the folk clubs for a while, until around late 1974/early 1975, when they made the decision to turn electric and added Mike Slamer (guitar) and Roger Kent (drums) to the lineup.

Lange became the de facto seventh member of the band, helping Chris Dunn hone his bass guitar skills and assisting with vocal arrangements.

[3] City Boy's follow up album, Dinner at the Ritz, garnered a positive review from the NME, which wrote, "Not even the highest ballyhoo of praise could do justice to City Boy's masterwork, Dinner At The Ritz...you hear a composing style which has been influenced by, respectfully, Lennon and McCartney, novelist Ian Fleming, and Noel Coward.

Roger Kent left the band before their third album, Young Men Gone West, and was temporarily replaced, for immediate recording purposes, by session drummer and ex-Crawler member, Tony Braunagel.

Their first album under this new deal, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, received strong reviews and produced a minor hit with the title song.

The album marked an early recording appearance by Huey Lewis, who played harmonica on the second track, "It's Only the End of the World".

Lol's father was Edward J. Mason, the creator and original scriptwriter of The Archers, the UK's longest running radio serial.

[citation needed] Laurence Edward "Lol" Mason died on 30 July 2019 at the age of 69 at his home in Harborne, Birmingham, from a heart attack, after complications following a kidney transplant.

Mike Slamer went on to record and work as a session musician and staff composer after a stint with American band Streets fronted by Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh in the early to mid-1980s.

Chris Dunn moved back to the UK in 1982 and worked for Zomba on various projects including the Shape Up And Dance roadshow, and was personal manager to Jive Records artists Tight Fit, who had a number one hit with the remake of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", where Roy Ward was also lead session singer.

He bought out Dreamhire from BMG after they had taken over ownership of Zomba in 2001, and announced his intention to close the business in an interview dated 15 August 2016.

In October 2009, Renaissance Records released City Boy's seventh and final studio album, It's Personal (1981), for the very first time on CD.

In 2015, Cherry Red's Lemon Recordings reissued the first four albums, again in two double-CD sets, this time remastered from the original master tapes with added bonus tracks and new liner notes.