THINK LIKE A KEY MUSIC

When Rock & Roll Gives You Lemons, Make Lightning

If Hollywood endings were real, British Lions' 1978 Starwood Club showcase would have launched them into the stratosphere. Instead, it launched them into chaos – and straight into creating an album that would make even Murphy's Law raise an eyebrow in admiration.

What happens when you take a band on the brink, add a house full of wayward cats (with interior decorating ambitions), a dash of hepatitis, and Morgan Fisher's cabinet of electronic curiosities? You get "Trouble with Women" – an album that should've imploded but instead exploded with creativity. From RAK Studios' hallowed halls emerged a record where thunderous rock meets sophisticated experimentation, where vocoder meets vintage vinyl, and where determination meets desperation in the most magnificent way possible.

The US executives called it "too cold and hard," which in 1978 was like complaining that your diamond was too sparkly. It took Cherry Red Records to recognize what the suits missed – that British Lions had turned turmoil into triumph, creating an album where even the chaos sounds calculated.

Now lovingly reissued and expanded, "Trouble with Women" stands as a testament to what happens when you give talented musicians nothing left to lose except their sense of humor. Turn it up and hear what defiance sounds like when it's wearing its best suit.