The Abbey Sessions
The first of several trips overseas, these sessions were pivotal in helping to reaffirm his pop and beat music roots; one night after a particularly exhilarating session he stopped by the famous Hippodrome where the BBC was broadcasting, live. A per chance meeting with one of the producers at the bar resulted in a spontaneous decision to air "Always Be Around" in a broadcast heard by a few million listeners. Later on, during those same sessions, upon inquiry by a star-struck Mr. Babcock, the engineers at Abbey Road actually pulled the original keyboard that John Lennon had used for the Strawberry Fields Forever recording (and promo video in 1967) out of a closet where it had been shut away for years, and pressed its retuned carcass back into service on a tune that he had written as his personal statement regarding the starving masses in Africa: "Through Their Eyes".
The bulk of the "Abbey" sessions would form the majority of JB's debut album, "Outta De Bleu". Some of his best songwriting efforts would surface here, including "Always Be Around", "Through Their Eyes" and such unforgettable pop high points as "Pennies In Her Eyes", "So Complicated", "I Don't Need You All That Bad" and the salsa-inspired single: "Singer Without A Song", which became Mr. Babcock's second music video.
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