Chris Sutton - Prince of Justice [audio]

CHRIS SUTTON may be a not well known name as solo artist, but this Scottish gentleman, working as multi-purpose musician hired by Polydor and other labels, has wrote and arranged music for major acts such as Starship (’Knee Deep in the Hoopla’), Paul McCartney and George Michael. Primarily, at the mid-eighties, Polydor UK intended to launch Sutton as solo artist together with Brian Spence and alikes, to capitalize the radio friendly rock&pop so ’in vogue’ at the time. On his self-titled debut, Chris had the opportunity to record his own songs arranged by master Robbie Buchanan, commercial and smooth lite AOR poppy tunes with the typical ’80s atmosphere. His style is not far from the aforementioned Spence, with nuances of several other Bristish artists as well. We have a cheesy cover of Russ Ballard’s classic “Voices“, a nice ballad co-penned by Sutton with Starship’s colaborator Martin Page (incorrectly credited in the booklet as ’Paige’), the lo