Kings, Queens & Dream Machines
Credits
All songs (words and music) by Saul Damelyn​
Except:
Back to the Start (Damelyn / Harvey)
The Evening is Waiting (Damelyn / Harvey)
High Fashion Queen (Parsons / Hillman)
Vocals: Saul Damelyn and featured vocalist Phoebe White
​Production and instrumentation: Paul Harvey
Guitar solo on HFQ: Saul Damelyn
Drums: Marc Parnell
Sound engineer at The Crypt, Crouch End: Joe Osborne
​Album cover art: Matt Roberts
​Videos: Vanessa Brassey
This album is dedicated to my beautiful daughters, Robbi and Annabel, and to my parents
For reasons explained on the About page, I have made a donation to the British Heart Foundation
About Saul
Saul Damelyn writes about the creative life. Being true to yourself and pursuing your dreams, no matter what stage of life or what “convention” dictates. Homecoming and renewal. Those are the recurring themes but his songs touch on many others: the thin line between success and failure; regret and time passing; the value of longevity in friendships; London and its rock and pop hinterland. One track celebrates the life and work of one of the most wildly creative writers of the last Century and this. There are pastiches on human relations to mix it up - and remind us that “it’s only rock and roll”.
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Saul believes the album remains the ultimate rock and roll art form. And that an album should not be one statement, but a multitude of statements, often conflicting, like in life. Kings, Queens and Dream Machines is his second album, the first on Spotify / Apple Music and the first to feature the wonderful soulful and expressive vocalist Phoebe White. Phoebe sings six of the songs, Saul three and they co-lead on Museum of Love.
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Saul Damelyn’s primary influences remain English lyrical “new wave” / glam rock (Costello, Squeeze, Steve Harley, Weller, Bowie, Dr Feelgood, T-Rex), The Kinks, Dylan, Richard Thompson and Nashville country (Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline).
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Paul Harvey, a gentle giant of a musician, produced the KQ&DM album, providing most of the instrumentation, with the legendary Marc Parnell on drums. Saul couldn’t resist one guitar solo, on the album’s only cover, the Flying Burrito Brothers’ shuffle classic, High Fashion Queen. Seven of the other nine songs were written (words and music) by Saul Damelyn, with two Damelyn/Harvey co-writes (Back to the Start and The Evening is Waiting).
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Saul Damelyn is the musical pseudonym of Brian Sher, a lawyer with a passion for music and songwriting. The surname comes from his family name Damelin. The first name would have been given 20 years ago to a son that never saw this world due to heart defects. He lives on through these songs. Rock and roll stories to warm the heart.