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''Poetic Justice'' is the fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released in 1996. ==Background== After the 1992 studio album ''Yes You Can'', which would largely consist of Harley-penned songs from the 1980s, ''Poetic Justice'' was the follow-up album. The album was recorded at Berry House Studios in Ardingly, Sussex. The album included three covers; the Jimmy Ruffin 1966 hit song "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?", the 1965 Bob Dylan hit song "Love Minus Zero-No Limit" and the 1970 Van Morrison hit song "Crazy Love". The new songs on the album were largely written during touring. The song "Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)" was originally an album track on Harley's 1978 debut solo album ''Hobo with a Grin'', and became a popular live number. For the ''Poetic Justice'' version, the album labelled it as "re-recorded "live" in the studio 1996".〔 On 16 May 1997, Harley was interviewed by John Gray for the Summer 1997 issue of Smiler magazine (issue 52), where the article was titled 'Poetic Brilliance!'. Whilst speaking of the album's covers Harley revealed ''"There's a lot of people who are quite unhappy with the covers that I've done on my new album, so I'm thinking I won't bother doing any again. My audience think I've run out of ideas if I only write eight out of eleven."'' Speaking of his reaction to Robson & Jerome reaching the UK number one spot with a cover of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" in 1996, Harley replied ''"I'd recorded it long before they turned up. We were saying to the record company, I'd done this as a single, and they hadn't got a bloody clue. Three months later it was being played by them. There should be a separate chart for those kind of people. You've got to remember, I sit here as the man who was knocked off No. 1 by Telly Savalas doing "If" – with a lollipop – there should be a separate chart for these people. "Make Me Smile" would have been No. 1 for five or six weeks instead of two, you know. Gimmicky records – huh! There should be a gimmick chart."''〔 In relation to the cover of "Love Minus Zero-No Limit", Gray commented that, before ''Poetic Justice'' was released, Rod Stewart had revealed he planned to record "Love Minus Zero". Harley replied ''"No! No – he didn't tell me! I gave him this album "Poetic Justice" – end of last year, about September or October. It won't stop him. He sells 25 times more than I do, so why should he not do it anyway?"'' Gray asked ''"What about the future? There was the album last year, is it going to be another four years until the next album?"'' Harley replied ''"Oh it's still a new album. We did those 22 dates in the autumn, we're doing 22 now – all different places except one. So it's still a new album."'' Finally, Harley was asked if he'd like another hit single, to which he responded ''"I would dearly love it. They should have released "The Last Time I Saw You" or "That's My Life in Your Hands" – they would have got a lot of air play – not Radio One – but a good plugger these days gets people like me on all those "gold" stations or Virgin – they'll all play it, and even if it was only a turntable hit, I'd have liked that, but record companies now are run by accountants. It's hard to get anyone to talk sense."'' In an article on Harley for the online music magazine Perfect Sound Forever, circa 2002, Harley spoke of the album, stating ''"Songwriting is one of the few jobs even in the world of creative art that we do where you don't get better with age. It's also true perhaps with novelists: that their best work is often left behind in their twenties and up to their mid thirties, when you're truly inspired and think you can rule the world. In '96, I released Poetic Justice and I do five or six songs from that most nights on tour and I would say they might just be the best songs I've ever written and they touch people as though they're the best songs I've ever written and they go down as though they were big hits."''〔http://www.furious.com/perfect/cockneyrebel.html〕 Discounting the album's three cover versions, the track "That's My Life in Your Hands" was the only song to feature a writing credit other than Harley himself. The co-writing credit for the music went to Hugh Nicholson. Harley recalled in 2015: ''"Hugh had written another song, same chords, different words and title. I asked permission to change the lyrics and produce my own version. I wrote all the lyrics."'' 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「Poetic Justice (Steve Harley album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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