John Parr

Songwriter: Pete Tidball John Parr

Producer: John Parr

Don't know how love survives
When all I can do is to barely stay alive
Wish I could go back in time
To a bedsit paradise

She sat down next to me
Dunked her biscuit in my tea
You don't need sugar
You're sweet enough for me

Told me she was movin' in
We'd be sharin' everything
Baby you and I in a bedsit paradise

Days of summer wine
We were laughing all the time
Partners in crime
I could love her without even tryin'
Baby you and I
In a bedsit paradise

Only had a single bed
Got as close as two can get
Makin' love while Lennon sang Imagine

Stuck your posters on my wall
Che Guevara, John and Paul
They were lookin' down on nights of passion

Days of summer wine
Makin' love most of the time
Partners in crime
I could love her without even tryin'
Baby you and I in a bedsit paradise

Time goes by
While we're dreamin' of tomorrow
Turnin' tides while the love just ebbs away

A faded photograph or two
With pain all over you
Days of summer wine
We were laughin' all the time
Won't you take me back in time
To a bedsit paradise

Thought those days would never end
You were my best friend
Partners in crime
I could love you without even tryin'

Days of summer wine
We were laughin' all the time
Now I'm just a lonely guy
In a bedsit paradise

John Parr (born 18 November 1952) is a Grammy-nominated English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 single “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” and for his 1984 single “Naughty Naughty” (US Rock #1). Parr was nominated for a Grammy award for “St Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

Parr first entered the music scene when he was 12 years old and formed a band with two fellow schoolmates, which they named The Silence. The band had achieved some success. They eventually became professional and started to tour Europe. He then joined a band named Bitter Suite who were a huge success in the working men’s clubs in Yorkshire, he then formed a “Super Band” with musicians from other working men’s club bands, and named the band Ponders End , a band that set a new precedent for the bands in the north.

Parr secured a publishing deal with Carlin America in 1983 and in the same year Meat Loaf asked him to write some songs for his new album. It led to a fateful meeting with John Wolff, who was tour manager for The Who. Foreseeing the initial demise of The Who, Wolff was looking for a new venture and considered Parr to be a suitable partner. Parr first visited America in 1984 and worked with Meat Loaf on Bad Attitude. Meanwhile, Wolff secured Parr’s solo Atlantic recording deal in New York.

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