Bruford
A glutton for punishment, Bill is back at Trident in January with fresh music for his second album, this to be all instrumental, and his first cover feature in Modern Drummer magazine. Excellent results are squeezed from the, by now, permanently unhappy but astonishingly gifted Holdsworth.
Again, with remarkable speed, “One of a Kind” is in the shops, and the band on tour by May, with dates in the UK and France. Holdsworth departs on the eve of the French leg, and John Clarke deps at extremely short notice. This to be the last French tour of any substance of Bill’s career.
The summer, again, is spent in the US; the NYC date is covered in the New York Times by Robert Palmer. Holly Anne Bruford is born on September 23rd , and with the manic energy of the dangerously unstable, Bill books Surrey Sound in Leatherhead for late October to record his band’s third album under the guidance of American Weather Report producer Ron Malo.