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Trevor Bannister (Contact): Lovers From The Sky book and CD

They say if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there. Well, this does not apply to Trevor Bannister. He was there and how he was there is what you can read in this book. Lovers From The Sky is a book about Trevor’s acquaintances with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkees and many other musicians of that exciting time. He connects those stories with political events, the wanderlust for unknown places soon to explode among the youth of Britain (and elsewhere), the emerging drug scene, interest in the inexplicable (UFOs) and the essence of Swinging London.

It was obvious that we, Apcor Books and Records, had to publish Trevor’s memoirs. Given the fact that he’s a genuine former Apple Records artist only validated our decision. As luck would have it, Trevor also unearthed a few unreleased tracks from his Apple days and a little beyond.
So who is Trevor Bannister you might well ask, since you certainly don’t have a record of his in your Apple collection. Well, he was the second artist signed to Apple Records on 4 June 1968 (the first one being Jackie Lomax who signed his contract three days earlier).

Lovers From The Sky and Around And Around, recorded at Trident Studios for his group Contact’s debut, would have made a fantastic single for Apple Records and for all we know, it could have been “Our first five” when the label was launched on 26 August 1968. But it was not to be and Contact’s recordings remained in the can for decades.

Lovers From The Sky – A Personal Memoir From The Sixties…And Beyond is now available for pre-order. Limited to only 400 copies, each book comes with a book plate signed by Trevor and includes a CD of his collected Trident and Apple Studios recordings (and a few other tracks). And all this for only 20 Euro (excl. s&h). The book will be available from June 2019 and we expect it to sell quickly. So better hurry and place your order now at www.apcor.net.

Re: Trevor Bannister (Contact): Lovers From The Sky book and CD

In case anyone doesn't know Contact-Lovers From The Sky, give it a listen. Would have been a great single and is one of those unreleased 60s gems that should have been known at the time.

Be interesting to see if anything else on the cd is in the same vein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KcAnIaoSxc