BOC: Sunday Times review

[Tim Hall]

Stephen Swann wrote:

> I sometimes think that one of the things that drags down bands who
> have had giant monster hits, is the resulting virtual enslavement to 
> playing those songs night after night for years on end.

BOC have the 'advantage' that they've only had three hits (in Britain, 
it's only really one), which, combined with a strong back catalogue of 
album tracks, means they've got a lot of opportunity to mix things up to 
prevent things getting too stale.  On British shows they could quite 
easily get away without playing 'Burning for You', since it was never a 
hit over here. Not even sure whether they put it out as a single.

OTOH, a band like Journey with many more standards solved the problem by 
going on lengthy hiatus multiple times.