Living in A World Of Make Believe - Peter Cupples

Produced and presented by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com Peter Cupples performs a series of songs to a small group of friends in Brisbane Australia in October 2007. A unique opportunity to hear one of Australia's best Singer/songwriters in an intimate atmosphere. Peter Cupples http://www.pertercupples.com has produced numerous albums over his extensive career, a brief summary of his time with Stylus and a recount of his experience in his own words follow. Peter Cupples formed the Masons Cure which later grew into Stylus. With great hits such as "Summer Breeze", "Living in a world of make believe" Stylus were destined to move on to greater things. With the release of their next album ("For the Love of music") the band found interest in America from Motown records. It was a great honour and thrill for the band to be the first all white band with Motown, and for Peter Cupples being the lead singer and songwriter it was pretty special. Jeff really believed in Stylus and he managed to help us gain a record contract and some commercial attention. We had been playing "Summer Breeze" back in the Masons Cure stage and it became our signature tune. We often had to play the song 2 or 3 times in one show to satisfy the audience. Our version of the Seals and Croft classic became our first Top10 hit. We made our first performance on Countdown - an incredible experience for a young group of guys from the bush. We really were "Living in a world of make believe" when we went into the studio to record that track. Around this time we hooked up with the management of Glenn Wheatley and his brother Paul. Glenn worked Stylus along with his other project, a group of guys called the Little River Band. At one Music industry conference they managed to sign LRB to Capital, and Stylus to Motown. Not a bad weeks work. We followed this up with our third album, Best Kept Secret. This album was released locally on Oz Records and in the United States, under the banner...