“The First Picture of You” by The Lotus Eaters

"The First Picture of You" was the Lotus Eaters' debut single in 1983, and it later turned up on their first album, No Sense of Sin, the following year. The song got its first airing in a 1982 John Peel session on Radio 1, and that broadcast set the major labels bidding against each other for the band.

Peter Coyle wrote the words at a writing session in Liverpool, over music Jem Kelly and Ged Quinn had demoed on a 4-track Portastudio. The right producer took a while to find: Nigel Gray, who had worked with the Police and Siouxsie and the Banshees, and cut it at Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead with session bassist Alan Spenner, known for his work with Joe Cocker and Roxy Music. The video was shot around Walberswick, in a house on Ferry Road and down on the beach.

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