..."Associate Editor - Paul DuNoyer:.."I want to Applaude him." .."an oddly under-celebrated talent." AT THE OPPOSITE END of several spectrums from Jewel sits the curious figure of Gilbert O'Sullivan. I'd nearly forgotten him. But he's back and perhaps in reaction to the glossy nothingness of Jewel's album, I want to applaud him. Admittedly his new album Piano Foreplay [EMI] has a terrible title, and its cover photo - a naked model apparently climbing out of a piano - is an idea that should have been quietly shown the door. But it's full of those wry, downtrodden everyman songs - with typically Gilbertesque titles like It Never Rains But It Pours, Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Such Is Life) and What's It All Supposed To Mean? - that remind you he could have become Britain's Randy Newman. The songs sound no different, actually, from the hits he had in the '70s. But you don't want Gilbert O'Sullivan announcing he's gone all drum 'n' bass, do you? There is a Best Of Gilbert O'Sullivan coming out next year and it will be an occasion to celebrate an oddly under-celebrated talent. As he puts it himself, "You can say all you like about goodbyes, they boost tissue sales at least." Issue 8 October 2003.

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