Peter Straker - This One's On Me (Deluxe Expanded Edition) (2020)

Three CD set. Peter Straker, concert and cabaret star of stage and screen, and long-term confidante of Freddie Mercury, released three hybrid rock/cabaret masterworks. These long out of print and highly sought-after cult classic albums were originally released between 1977 and 1980 and were all produced by stellar production talents. Freddie Mercury co-produced Straker's career defining This One's On Me album alongside Roy Thomas Baker - who was the celebrated producer behind many of Queen's classic albums. Straker's 1979 album Changeling was Tim Friese-Greene's first full album production role before his acclaimed association with Thomas Dolby and his becoming the de facto 4th member of Talk Talk on their critically acclaimed later albums. At the controls for 1980's Real Natural Man was Reinhold Mack whose career includes producer credits for Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Scorpions, Meatloaf and Deep Purple. Peter Straker has been hailed as one of the great voices of the British stage. This set contains all three original albums in reproduction album covers and includes a comprehensive 48 page illustrated booklet containing full album lyrics, Straker's reminiscences of Freddie Mercury in an essay called Freddie & I, a thorough autobiographical memoir of his own recording career and a full chronological list of his performance credits in screen, stage, concerts!