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"The Best of Peter & Gordon" from Rhino is not the best Peter & Gordon collection out there, but until the release of "The Ultimate Peter & Gordon" in 2001 it was the best collection available for a decade. Peter Asher and Gordon Waller were the rock duo who had the distinction of being the first group in the British Invasion other than the Beatles to have a #1 hit, "A World Without Love." Of course, the explanation for this success was that Asher's younger sister Jane was Paul McCartney's girlfriend during the first part of the Sixties. This connection paid off with three other hits for Petermore… & Gordon, namely: "Nobody I Know" (#12), "I Don't Want to See You Again" (#16) and "Woman" (#14). However, even without their recoding discarded Beatles songs Peter & Gordon would be remembered for their novelty hit "Lady Godiva" (#6)With their softer, more acoustic sound, you can see Peter & Gordon as being more in tune with the folk-rock movement than with the British Invasion (Asher would go on to be a producer who helped define the mellow sound of California rock, which would seem to help prove the point). Notice that their folksier songs, like "Knight in Rusty Armour" and the Phil Ochs song "The Flower Lady" stand up a lot better than ones where the production values lean towards orchestrations, such as "To Know You Is to Love You," and "Baby I'm Yours." At the very least, Peter & Gordon represent the lighter side of the British Invasion, and you can have fun figuring out who their dark side counterpart would be. The only serious knock against them is that Asher and Waller were average song-writers at best (but notice that the album ends with a pair of songs the duo wrote individually).

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Peter & Gordon - The Best of Peter & Gordon (1991) Retail CD

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