Chapter 5 part 2 - End of the Century

Later (1993) the shorter version of the title track made it on to the soundtrack of a completely different film Aspen Extreme, a movie about love, snow and curiously shaped planks of wood, a theme that was perhaps oddly prescient considering Terry's involvement in another film project much later on (see Wonderland Part 6 of Bio). Further exposure, this time on a smaller screen occured when two tracks, 5th of July and Right Til the End, surfed their way on to an episode of Baywatch (1993 series 3, Shattered Pt II ). Petrolheads, ski dudes and pneumatic bouncing Pamela fans, the songs got a whole spread of potential new fan bases for Terry. Somewhere there's probably a guy hurtling down a slope right now on a set of motorised skis wearing nothing more than a tight, red, one piece swimsuit declaiming at the top of his voice 'Can't stop to think or see , is this really what god cut for me ...' (The Driver Pt1 ). Anyway, aware of Trevor's track record and happy to take advice, Terry let the guy get on, do his job and produce the new album ' The Driver'. The result is a tightly produced record which whilst sounding very much like an album of the times still allowed for a typical Terry confection of different styles.

Some soft acoustic, some big ballads, rockers and a little experimentation with the sampling in of some of the Voix Bulgares, a band of tradiitonal female Bulgarian singers who had made a big impresssion in Western Europe and the States around that time. Terry recalls hearing the singers whilst in America and being deeply moved as many were by the stunning and unfamiliar style of singing. Although not credited on the album sleeve there was a whole host of people contributing to the tracks ( recorded in the UK and back in LA ); Joe Walsh, Alan White, Lee Miles, Soko Richardson , Howard Jones, Stewart Copeland and Enya. These were the ones referenced by Warner UK in a press release of the time, though I believe there are more.