Let's Spend The Night Together

Rather than coming from Russia CCCP came from a number

of different corners of the world including Sweden, Britain

and America. The original band was to have included the

late Gary Holton who unfortunately died before the project

could be finalised. Enter John Payne who was at the time

in the eighties beginning to build a reputation as a vocalist

on the London recording scene.

John would go on to work briefly with ELO II and also record

backing vocals on Roger Daltrey’s albums Under A Raging

Moon and Can’t Wait To See The Movie. He is perhaps more

famous for replacing John Wetton as the vocalist and bassist

in Asia for fifteen years between 1991 and 2006 recording

more than ten albums with the band and touring the world a

number of times. Since John left Asia he has appeared as the

Parson Nathaniel in Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War

Of The Worlds and also formed a new band with Jay Schellan

and Guthrie Govan entitled GPS.

CCCP was put together by a producer and conceived as a

studio project in 1986 which featured a number off different

vocalists including John Payne and Carlene Carter. The album

includes a number of cover versions including a cover of the

Eagles song One Of These Nights which is sung by John Payne.

This release is the first time that the album has received a

general worldwide release and as such will appeal to long time

fans of John’s work both as a solo artist and his work with Asia.