British Lions’ Cult Second LP Trouble With Women Roars Back in Deluxe CD Remaster—Hear “Eat the Rich” Demo
Long-shelved glam classic Trouble With Women finally roars back on 28 March 2025—Prof. Stoned’s new remaster is exclusive to a limited CD.
The post-Mott quintet British Lions—John Fiddler, Morgan Fisher, “Buffin” Dale Griffin, Overend Watts, and Ray Majors—managed just one major release before splintering. Their would-be follow-up, 1980’s Trouble With Women, slipped out quietly and was quickly deleted. Forty-five years later, Think Like A Key gives the album a deserved victory lap: a Prof. Stoned remaster, exclusive to a limited-run CD landing 28 March 2025.
Today’s advance cut, “Eat the Rich” (Status Quo demo), sets the tone—riff-heavy glam with Fiddler sneering over Fisher’s ring-modulated Wurly and Watts’ thunder-storm bass. Unearthed from a cassette marked “Status Quo demo,” it’s finally cleaned up and included as bonus track nine.
A near-miss finally fixed
Drummer Buffin recalls in the new 16-page booklet how both their UK and US labels called the finished record “too cold and hard,” shelving it for good. Keyboardist Morgan Fisher remembers slathering the tracks with “reverse echo, vocoder, ring-modulated Wurlitzer … somehow it all slotted in without messing up the power of the songs.”
What’s on the disc
- Original eight-track album, remastered (1–8)
- Demos & out-takes: “Eat the Rich,” two Fiddler home demos, “The Studio Song” (9–12)
- Live ’77–’78 roar: four concert cuts from Aylesbury & Dudley, incl. “Rising Sun” and Chuck Berry’s “Come On” (13–16)
Availability
- CD digipak (TLAK1201) – limited to 400 copies worldwide.
- Digital: the original remaster remains on streaming via SingSong Ltd.; this 2025 remaster is CD-only.
