If The Beach Boys came from Liverpool – they’d sound like JAMES CLARKE FIVE’s ‘Lennie Dale (Fly Fly Fly)’

James Hughes, Liverpool legend and former frontman of ‘80s new wave outfit The Cherry Boys returns with his solo JAMES CLARKE FIVE project, releasing the outrageously gorgeous single, ‘Lennie Dale (Fly Fly Fly),’ via Favourite Recordings.

Hughes has major lineage within the Liverpool music scene, his Cherry Boys performing with The LA’s, Cast, The Icicle Works, Lightning Seeds, and many others.

Now based in London, Hughes mixes elaborate, mature, psychedelic pop, with melodies from heaven on his new song, a dreamy, seductive offering.

‘Lennie Dale (Fly Fly Fly)’ is inspired by the life of dancer, singer, choreographer, New Yorker and adopted Brazilian, Lennie Dale, who became involved in the Bossa Nova movement, recording a number of albums, and later founding the 1970s theatre group Dzi Croquettes, known for their flamboyant and androgynous style. The single an attempt to encapsulate his spirit of defiance and resistance in the face of censorship from Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Recorded in his home studio, Hughes produced and mastered the song, performing all instruments and vocals.

“Many artists tend to write about their own journey, their own experiences,” he said. “And that’s fine – but there’s a lot of it about!  I find it more interesting to write about other people’s lives, and their struggles, perhaps more obscure figures who to me are in some way heroic.  And I think ‘Lennie Dale’ is a typical of that approach.”

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