Phil Specter tapped him for those legendary Long and Winding Road overdub sessions and one can imagine him motioning towards the strings with an expensive handgun held to his head. Hewson had made his first big musical mark in an ignominious fashion: he arranged the strings that broke up The Beatles. Just one very talented veteran session composer who knew his way around a stack of vintage synths well enough to pull off a album's worth of material by himself. Perhaps the masks were employed because "Rah" simply stands for Richard Anthony Hewsen and there was no band at all.
When the single's success propelled the "band" into the pop TV circuit, they were forced to improvise their appearance. In 1977, the UK charts welcomed a really weird dance cut into their top 10: The Crunch, by the Rah Band. Producer, Composed By, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Guitar, Bass - Richard Hewsonĭrums, percussion and brass recorded and the whole thing mixed at R.G. 2009, ) Percussion - Tony Carr, Harold McNair Quartet )Įngineer - John Madden ( ) ""I like RAH Band because the music is unique, it's sounds like aerospace, everything regarding future sophisticated technology."Īrtwork By - Gregory Lynn/ Artwork By - John Holmes ( )Īrtwork By - Splash Design For Andrew Archer Assoc.ĭrums - Barry de Souza (died in sept. "There’s an ear to detail, melody and arrangement which you often don’t find in these new “disco"releases." "The Rah band were fantastic, and still are to this day" "Totally underrated, the Rah Band should be put next to artists as Human League, Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet."