Crispian St Peters - The Anthology

Crispian St Peters

Crispian St Peters, (edit, A.K.A three sheets ter de wind) flirted with fame in the 1960s as a pop singer, but fell from favour when he compared himself with the
Beatles and declared that his songs were better than theirs.

Crispian St Peters — real name Pete Smith — first excited attention with comments
he made in the wake of his first chart success in January 1966 with You Were On My Mind; this had climbed to number two, denied the top slot only by a cover version of the Beatles’ song Michelle by the Overlanders. His assertion, on the
strength of a single hit, that he was going to be “bigger than Presley, more talented
than Sammy Davis Jr” was generally reckoned at best misjudged, at worst reckless. In March he followed up with The Pied Piper, which reached number five, and
proclaimed himself “a better songwriter than Lennon and McCartney”, “sexier than
Dave Berry” and “more exciting than Tom Jones”. The pop music press made hay with what sounded like nothing more than ill-founded conceit. Matters went from
bad to worse when the newcomer told a teen magazine: “I think the Beatles’ stage
act is rubbish. I move about. I do something to earn my money — they just stand
there.” With the Beatles at the peak of their success, pop pundits pounced, and although the hapless St Peters claimed to have been making these heretical
pronouncements with his tongue firmly in his cheek, the damage was done, the
New Musical Express labelling him “the Cassius Clay of pop”.“From being a world
superstar just a few short weeks ago,” noted one observer, “he was now virtually an outcast.”

Crispian St. Peters - The Anthology

01 You Were On My Mind.mp3
02 The Pied Piper [1966].mp3
03 Free Spirit [1967].mp3
04 But She's Untrue [1966].mp3
05 Changes [1966].mp3
06 Carolina [1968].mp3
07 At This Moment [1965].mp3
08 No No No [1965].mp3
09 Your Ever Changing Mind [1966].mp3
10 You'll Forget Me, Goodbye [1965].mp3
11 You Have Gone [1967].mp3
12 Wandering Hobo [1970].mp3
13 Monumental Queen [1969].mp3
14 Do Daddy Do [1974].mp3
15 Oh Caroline [1978].mp3
16 It Ain't The Same [1978].mp3
17 Every Time You Sinned [1974].mp3
18 Laura [1983].mp3
19 Sweet Lies [1967].mp3
20 Please Take Me Back [1970].mp3
21 Love Love Love [1970].mp3
22 Three Goodbyes [1965].mp3
23 The Silent Times [1968].mp3
24 That's Why We Are Through [1968].mp3
25 I Fall To Pieces [1967].mp3
26 I've Cried A Mile [1970].mp3
27 Country Roads [I Almost Made It Back] [1990].mp3
28 Sailing Deep Water [1990].mp3
29 The Pied Piper [1990].mp3

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