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 of the world's most respected Soul label Motown. The Motown subsidiary, Prodigal, carried the Stylus name to the world's biggest market behind the disguise of a mask. We were pretty excited with being signed to such a prestige label but, as things turned out, we were the last act to be published on Prodigal, and the American market never found out that there were five white Aussie guys hiding behind the mask. It did, however, leave us with the legacy of a great story to tell future generations... Our fourth and final album was Part Of It All. Again this is a nice recording. With the promise of the Motown emergence still ever present in our enthusiasm, we worked hard to produce a top quality record. Unfortunately, it ended up being the finale to a great part of my life. Stylus was very different to the other bands of the time in many ways. Not only musically different, but also culturally different. We were friends and family, and remain so to this day. Our reunion concerts move the audience because there is still magic between us that time has not eroded. Our recent reunion at Capers (see current projects), proved to our loyal fans that we still have the ability to create something special when we do get together. In the same way that we came together as friends ,we parted as friends. There was no definitive rock and roll type split, no arguments over musical direction, no tensions within the band, no religious differences or bad karma... We were just all very tired from the touring. We had been on the road for 50 weeks a year for over 5 years, and it was wearing us down. Quite naturally we all started working on different projects, some still working with each other, but the band that was known as Stylus, that had been such a wonderful era in all of our lives ceased to exist. In the end it was wonderful to have been..."A part of it all"... Track Listing: 1. World Of Make Believe 2. All In The Game 3. Will This Continue 4. Just Begun 5. Summer Breeze 6. Paradise 7. I'm So In Love With You 8. I Remember 9. Where In The World 10. I'm Going Home Album Details: Released by Astor. 1975 Produced by Trevor Courtney and Stylus A special thank you to my friend Erik Johansen (Tape8) who edited Peters performance - http://www.tape8.com