Time Takes Time 1991-1999
Warman had had a long standing friendship with Ringo Starr which went back to 1977 at Ring O'Records and when Starr started working on his first studio album in nine years Warman was asked to contribute towards the album in a song writing capacity. Warman and Starr traveled to Monaco to focus on song writing which produced "Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go", "Everyone Wins", "After All These Years" and "Runaways". Three of the songs were used on the album and the fourth saw light on the b-side of a single. Warman supported Starr's second all-starr band at two of their performances in London. Both Starr and Warman performed "Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go" as part of their sets, a song Starr continues to perform live.
At the same time as working with Starr, Warman once again formed a band "4 Bills And A Ben" in 1991 with Jeff Rich (Who had been in 3 Minutes) also drummer for Status Quo at the time on drums along with John "Rhino" Edwards also of Status Quo on Bass, Steve Byrd on lead guitar, Andy Hamilton on Saxophone, Spike Edney on Keyboards and Mark Rich on Guitar. The band mainly plays covers of 1960s and 1970s songs and most of their activity is for charity, Due to the commitment of all band members to other musical activities the band is only "occasional" although they continue to perform, all be it occasional.
Also whilst not only working with Starr and performing with 4 Bills And A Ben, Warman was also collaborating with Geoff Downes and Asia which saw four of Warman's co-compositions on Asia's album Aqua, six of Warman's co-compositions on Geoff's solo album Vox Humana and Warman singing the lead vocals on the track "Satellite Blues".
In 1993 the Johnny Warman/Nick Graham song "Our World" was entered into "A Song For Europe" on 3 April, in which every song was sung by Sonia. The song was placed second with 77,685 votes and Sonia released the song on her "Better The Devil You Know" album (Although the song was originally intended for release by Tracey Ackerman).
Warman returned to the studio again in 1996-97 to record 2 albums of Library music for De Wolfe with band mates Andy Hamilton and Steve Byrd along with Brad Lang, Pete Thoms, Roger Beaujolais, Steve Hamilton, Neil Angilley, Dave Clayton and Nigel Brown. One of each of the two Andy Hamilton/Johnny Warman co-compositions "Johnny The Jazz Freak" and "Grasslands" can be found on the first and second album respectively.
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