** LOST 1973 SINGLE FROM TOM MARSHALL **

Tom Marshall has played around the world in a number of successful bands. As a member of Tony Rivers and The Castaways, Harmony Grass, Sparrow, M Squad, and Liquid Gold he has had hits all over the globe. He’s worked as an arranger and touring musician with some of the most successful artists of the last 50 years including: Cliff Richard, Shirley Bassey, Bucks Fizz, and Gene Pitney, and has written a book – Catch A Falling Star – telling a true tale of the highs and lows of a pop musician’s life. His new single The Hill is a lost 1973 recording, a wonderful classic sounding seventies song, heard here for the very first time. In the early 1970s, after another of his bands had split, Tom was offered the chance to earn a living as a working musician in the Middle East, playing in hotels and resorts every evening. It was during this time he wrote and recorded the unreleased Catch a Falling Star album. Recorded on two Vox tape recorders and some effects units, Tom found time on his rare off days, utilising mornings and afternoons to create this unreleased work of brilliance. These lost songs sound like the classic rock and pop writing of the 1960s and 1970s. Tom Marshall has experienced a great variety in the music business: from being managed by Brian Epstein to creating jingles for his local disco. He was touring with Bucks Fizz during December 1984 when he was badly injured after their tour bus crashed, breaking his spine and being administered the last rites. His story could easily have been titled ‘Agony and Ecstasy’, a tale of opportunities seized (and missed) and of teetering again and again on the brink of stardom. The album Catch A Falling Star will be available on CD and digitally this summer, and The Hill will be released as a single on streaming services from May 9th. Tom Marshall resides between Bromley and Spain and continues to write songs and perform live regularly.