920: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE | THE TARNEY/SPENCER BAND

Run For Your Life is definately “yacht rock” (like Poco or Little River Band) This record has the hooks of it’s late 70s contemporaries and, on first listen, it doesn’t stray too far beyond that sound. For me in further listens it has risen well above. Now it’s on regular rotation when the mood hits. “Live Again” and the title track finish the first side off perfectly. I came across Run For Your Life maybe 2 years ago (‘17). It was one of those records that almost magically appeared just after becoming award of it in the random used section at my favorite record store. This record should really be much higher up…

Tarney/Spencer Band were a rock band formed in London in 1975 with Trevor Spencer on drums and Alan Tarney on lead guitar, bass guitar and lead vocals. Both had been in Australian bands, including James Taylor Move, prior to relocating to the United Kingdom, where they formed the duo. The group issued three albums, Tarney and Spencer (1976), Three's a Crowd (1978) and Run for Your Life (1979). Their single, "No Time to Lose" (1979), received airplay in the United States on album-oriented rock radio stations. It charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in both 1979 and again in 1981 upon re-issue. By the end of 1979, Tarney/Spencer Band had broken up and both founders undertook careers as songwriters, session musicians and record producers. Full article