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One of the lost jewels within the Roger Chapman crown, He Was She
Was You Was We Was was the double live album that confirmed the
former Family/Streetwalkers frontman as a superstar in Germany in
1982. Recorded late the previous year in Hamburg (and not, as is
frequently claimed, during the German TV Rockpalast concert show)
and built around his Hyenas album, it blazed through his solo
career with furnace-fire aplomb, with a pair of medleys -- one
commencing with the old blues shaker "I'm a King Bee," the other
with Larry Williams' "Slow Down" -- highlights that few live acts
of the era could muster. It is not an oldies show -- anybody coming
to a Chapman live album today would be certain to search for Family
favorites. They are absent -- this is the sound of Chapman at the
top of his game, whether pounding through his own most recent
material or dipping back to mash Jimi Hendrix's "Stone Free" with
Miles Davis' "Bitch's Brew," while the band -- led by the
indefatigable Tim Hinckley -- simply storms. Barely noticed in the
U.S. or U.K., He Was She Was You Was We Was became one of the
biggest European hits of the year, and it would be another 23 years
before it finally received a headlining British release, when
reissued by Angel Air in 2005, with one more moment of magnificence
appended as a bonus track: a five-minute romp through "I Just Want
to Make Love to You." ~ Dave Thompson
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