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"''Devils Ball''" is a song by the Swiss Sophisti-pop duo Double, released as the lead single from their second studio album ''Dou3le''. The single was released in 1987, and featured a guest appearance from Herb Alpert, who played trumpet on the track.〔http://www.discogs.com/Double-Devils-Ball/master/276996〕 ==Background== Following the band's breakthrough success with their 1985 album ''Blue'', and the hit single "The Captain of Her Heart", the band began work on a follow-up album, which was released as ''Dou3le'' in 1987. The leading single selected from the album was "Devils Ball", which gained acclaim, however only reached #71 in the UK, lasting within the Top 100 for four weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DOUBLE )〕 It also reached #30 in Belgium.〔http://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/7af1/Double-Devils-Ball〕 The ''Dou3le'' album failed to emulate the success of its predecessor, while a second single "Gliding" was not a success either. In a 2011 interview for i:Vibes, Maloo expressed his thoughts on the single, and the process of recording it: "Doub3le is not my favourite album. The album isn't homogeneous. Everybody was doing his own thing and we were about to split up over the recording process. Our single "Devils Ball" was a big accident. It wasn't a hit, because the guy that played the electric violin couldn't play the theme on the acoustic violin. I wanted an acoustic violin, but in the end we went with the electric violin and a free interpretation of the lead theme. I didn't want this and I knew it wasn't good for the song, so I asked Herb Alpert who owned A&M Records to play the main melody on the trumpet, but in the end the violin survived along with the trumpet. The label wasn't happy, because we had () had a hit, but radio stations didn't play it, because it was too experimental sounding. It was a minor hit in England though."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=() i:Vibes Interviews Kurt Maloo )〕 In 2011 Maloo recalled Alpert's appearance on the track: "I heard his music at a very young age and it wasn't until way later that I found out it was him. His music was a big part of my childhood. With the success of Double, we were able to meet him at the former Charlie Chaplin studios in Los Angeles. When we were mixing our second album we asked him to play the piano part on "Devils Ball" on the trumpet and he immediately agreed. 10 years later I saw him at his concert again in Hamburg. He insisted that "Devils Ball" should have been a big hit and that it's a shame it wasn't. He obviously hates to lose."〔 In a 2013 interview with the ''Kickin' it Old School'' blog, Maloo explained his reaction to the duo's inability to gain further hit singles, other than "The Captain of Her Heart": "It was more surprising rather than frustrating at the time. We had minor hits with "Woman Of The World" and "Devils Ball", but they couldn't compete with The Captain's popularity at all. We were proud of other songs we had created, but it's like when the sun is shining you don't see the beautiful stars, although they're there all the time."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Back to the 80s: Interview with Kurt Maloo of Double - Kickin' it Old School - tBlog.com )〕 In 2006, Maloo released the album ''Loopy Avenue'', which featured a new recording of "Devils Ball". The album explored the impact Double had had on him following the unexpected death of Haug in 2004, which prompted Maloo to revisit the past twenty years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 The result was four re-recordings of previous Double tracks from the 1980s as well as eight new and previously unheard tracks by Kurt Maloo and Double. Herb Alpert reprised his role on trumpet for the new recording of "Devils Ball".〔http://www.discogs.com/Kurt-Maloo-vs-Double-Loopy-Avenue/release/827619〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Devils Ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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