![]() It was the flipside of the single release of ‘Forever Young’. ![]() It’s a nice Rock Candy touch to have included ‘Walk Away’ as the album’s bonus track. The result is a hard won, eminently welcome combination of the epic and the intimate. And elsewhere, the surprising emotional heft of this recording – most notably on other standouts – ‘Wings’, ‘Burning Down Inside’ and ‘Standing Alone’ is achieved through the composition of fresh sounding melodies and universal messages, then framing them in thoughtful, inventive arrangements. But no, heart-lifting opener, ‘Forever Young’ burns bright, performing that real trick of merging past with present, sounding even more vital and new in remastered form. You would have thought that a decade of Arena Rock would have wrung out every possible wrinkle, every conceivable melody line, hook, chorus, twist and turn that a songwriter / band could have contrived. No question, Don’t Come Easy distilled the previous decade’s Big Hair/ Stadium/ Radio rock into ten flamboyant, yet satisfyingly compact AOR songs. ![]() ![]() On the back of the album, they jumped onto Nelson’s US tour, then leapfrogged onto White Lion’s hugely popular UK tour in the same year. The totally out of time Tyketto (named after a graffiti tagline seen on a New York City wall) surfaced in 1990, signed to the Geffen label, an industry giant, and recorded Don’t Come Easy with studio master Richie (Heart/ Cheap Trick/ Bad English) Zito. The lead singer had such strong vocals and the keyboard player was absolutely amazing I had bought 3 of their tapes only to have so called freinds borrow them without returning them. Reviewed by Brian McGowan and reissued by Rock Candy Records February 2017 Tyketto being an opening band just blew away the audience.
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