Facade (album)

Facade is the debut studio album by English rock group Facade, released on 27 November 1971. The band consisted of Luke Melvin's brother Paul Melvin (lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitars), George David (backing vocals, drums) and John Christian (bass guitar). Despite getting some attention from the fact that Paul Melvin was Luke Melvin's brother, the album did not perform well and only reached No. 99 in the UK and did not chart in the USA. The song "Travelling the World" was the band's first single and featured again on their second album Facade II.

The band's thoughts
"I bloody well can't deny it was a flop but it is one of my favourite albums that we did. It was our start. It was great became me and Paul had been writing for a while but John had only just started out. Paul's brother Luke got us into business with the Beatles and we signed with Apple. It was a great time." - George David.

"That was my favourite time of Facade. Our first album was great. Jesus [Melvin's nickname for John Christian] had only just started writing, and me and George wrote some pretty good tracks. "Travelling the World" was a flop but we knew the potential so for our next album we included it. It was the only time a track had appeared on two albums. Good times." - Paul Melvin.

"I really enjoyed that time of our career. George and Paul had been writing for a while but they got me into songwriting and I preferred it to playing live eventually. It was great." - John Christian.

Track-listing
All lead vocals by Paul Melvin, except where noted. Side one: tracks 1-4; side two tracks 5-8.

Personnel
Facade
 * Paul Melvin - lead vocals, electric, acoustic, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards
 * George David - backing vocals, drums
 * John Christian - bass guitar

Additional personnel
 * Luke Melvin - producer