Leo Sayer ~ Thunder In My Heart 1977 Disco Purrfection Version

Leo has a versatile voice and can sing just about anything from "Long Tall Glasses" to "When I Need You" to the raucous "Thunder In My Heart" where he had been mistakenly identified as Freddie Mercury by some listeners. I can understand that once I listened again to the song, his incendiary vocals helped to define the feeling when you are falling out of love.

Gerard Hugh "Leo" Sayer was born May 21, 1948 and raised in Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex to Thomas E.G. Sayer and Theresa Nolan as the second of three sons. He attended St Peter's Catholic Primary School then went on to study commercial art and graphic design in Sussex.

Then he turned to songwriting and a song he wrote with David Courtney was recorded by Roger Daltrey who got his first solo hit with it in the summer of 1973. His second solo single was the one that clinched it, "The Show Must Go On" was covered by Three Dog Night who got a #4 Hot100 hit out of it. His first hit was "Long Tall Glasses" that topped out at #9 in the US.

His 1976 album Endless Flight garnered him two #1 hits, When I Need You and You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. His fifth album "Thunder In My Heart" was issued in 1977, but it was the song "Easy To Love" that echoed the smooth soul of Boz Scaggs "Silk Degrees" and earned a #36 pop hit with it. The title track did not perform as well peaking at #38 on the Hot100 and a #30 disco hit.