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    BE-BOP DELUXE

    Jun 19, 2020 4 minutes
    By Jim Wirth

    Axe Victim (reissue, 1974) CHERRYRED

    REISSUE OF THE MONTH 8/10

    KEEN to sign up the quirky singer-songwriter whose self-released solo hippie oddity Northern Dream had been getting regular play on John Peel’s Radio 1 show, EMI’s A&R men lured Wakefield troubadour Bill Nelson down to London, but were somewhat nonplussed when he announced that he had formed a band. Invited to see Be-Bop Deluxe play at the Staging Post near Leeds in 1973, the big-city rock scouts were less than bowled over.

    In his sleevenotes to this super-abundant version of Be-Bop Deluxe’s debut album, Nelson remembers that the men from EMI deemed

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