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  1. Chasing Shadows is the Comsat Angels' sixth album, released in 1986 on Island Records. Having left Jive Records, the band had gotten a recording contract with Island, aided by Robert Palmer, who confessed on a TV show to be a fan of the Comsat Angels.

  2. The band found a fan and supporter in Robert Palmer (a fellow Yorkshireman), who was at the height of his popularity at this point in the 1980s. Palmer facilitated the Comsat Angels' signing to Island Records, and he served as executive producer for their next album, Chasing Shadows (1986) and even sang on one song, "You'll Never Know". That ...

  3. Mar 25, 2024 · Robert Palmer himself appears halfway through the song to take over the vocals. This is how Comsat fandom can affect people, with Palmer compelled to promote and assist the band and super fan Mark Kermode describing them as not only as his favourite act of all time but the greatest band in the world.

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    Chasing Shadows in Q Despite an initial chorus of critical acclaim, the Sheffield quartet lost their way in the early '80s and had passed their sell-by date with a couple of record companies before Robert Palmer 's timely intercession secured the current deal with Island.

  6. Following the missteps of two more mainstream-sounding efforts, the Comsat Angels signed to Island at the behest of an in-house champion — Robert Palmer, in another example of his wide and intriguing tastes — and created Chasing Shadows, almost picking up where Fiction had left off.

  7. It's also the result of an association with Robert Palmer, a fan who executive produced the record. Despite dated production and material that doesn't match the band's first three records, the members refer to it as their fourth record.

  8. Nov 17, 2015 · 17 11 2015. Edsel records have issued remastered and expanded versions of the first three albums from the influential Sheffield band The Comsat Angels. The fourth set in the reissue campaign is the long out-of-print Chasing Shadows coupled with the virtually never in print Fire On The Moon.

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