In 1977, experimenting with a squarer world, Cox had taken a job in publishing at Thorsons, and begun writing and editing books. Cox's days as a cool cat were by then a long time gone, but he continued to write music. That was more or less the group that later played on the Obie Clayton records."īefore splitting, the Obie Clayton band recorded another album that never came out and some singles and, as Cox told a Procol Harum biographer in 1999, "there's tons of old stuff lying around on tapes it's just that I'm now in my fifties and I don't know where to go with these things". But I didn't really like that, so I got a band together instead. After that I played a few gigs on my own. So that was how I got to make the first Matthew Ellis LP. There was a record producer in the audience called Jerry Dane, and he asked if I wanted to sign for a deal. We played live as the film was being shown. I wrote some music for that and got a little band together to perform it. I was studying at Cambridge in 1969-70 and someone was making a film there, a real 'arty' black-and-white film, like a silent movie. As Cox himself put it: "I think the two albums I made as Matthew Ellis were a mixture between Elton John and Procol Harum.
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