As someone who’d told The Face in 1983 that “all I ever wanted to do as far back as I can remember was to leave school, get on the dole and form a band”, a great deal seemed to have changed for Roddy Frame by the time Aztec Camera’s third album, Love, was released in 1987.
Crucially, they were no longer a band: original keyboard player Bernie Clarke had departed following their first album, 1983’s High Land, Hard Rain, and Malcolm Ross, his replacement on 1984’s Knife – and also a veteran of Josef K and Orange Juice – was gone, too, along with bassist Campbell Owens and drummer Dave Ruffy.
Instead, Aztec Camera were now exclusively a vehicle for Frame, who’d still barely reached his mid-20s, to do as he wanted, and from Love’s first single, Deep & Wide & Tall, it was clear he wanted hits.
FRAME NEVER MADE A GREAT SECRET OF HIS COMMERCIAL AMBITIONS, HAVING TOLD NME IN EARLY 1984, “I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POP STAR”
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