BILLY SHERWOOD'S NEW SINGLE, 'JUST GALILEO AND ME' FEATURES XTC's COLIN MOULDING
Frontiers Music Srl has released the single, 'Just Galileo And Me' from Billy Sherwood's upcoming concept album, CITIZEN. Release date of the album is November 6th. The song features XTC's Colin Moulding on lead vocals.
"Just Galileo And Me" is about Galileo's friend and confidante trying to convince the scientist to keep his theory that 'the earth is not flat', which is also the song's hook, to himself for fear he'll be labeled a heretic.The friend does acknowledge the scientist's conviction, and the lyrics show how he knew that 'eventually they would see.'
CITIZEN will be in stores and online November 6th. Billy Sherwood created this concept album based on a lost soul that is reincarnated into various periods of history. Each song places the Citizen into a unique set of circumstances where decisions are made that have serious personal and global consequences.
Billy Sherwood was recently handpicked by Chris Squire to fill in for him on bass and vocals in Yes, before he left for cancer treatment and ultimately, his untimely death. Billy started his career in the band Lodgic and then as a member of World Trade, who have two critically-acclaimed albums. He has produced and engineered for many artists including John Wetton, Motorhead, Queensryche, Paul Rodgers, and Yes. He joined Yes first as touring member on the 'Talk' tour in 1994, and was a full time member from 1997 to 1999. He recorded two albums with Chris Squire as the 'Conspiracy' project and released six albums with Circa, the band he formed with Tony Kaye.
CITIZEN is Billy's eighth album of new material, though he sees this as a group effort, "While I've created a lot of this record myself I couldn't have done it without the amazing talents brought to bear by all the great artists who participated. So I feel it's much more of a collective effort than a solo album. It's my desire to take this production onto the stage and some of these amazing artists can help bring this concept to life.'
