Big City Talk

Very smart clean vinyl with a nice cover. Includes inner sleeve.

Marc Hunter was born in Taumaranuion 7th September 1953. In the late 50's, he joined his older brother Todd and parents in family public performances. Todd played guitar and Marc was on drums, while Dad played sax and Mum played piano.He then began drumming and singing with Quintessence at an Auckland restaurant. Meanwhile Todd had started a band called Dragon. Marc, wanting a change, was invited to join Dragon as lead singer, when the opportunity arose in 1973.

Marc stayed as the front man for Dragon until he was officially sacked from the group in March 1979. For details of this period from 1973 to 1979, see Dragon.

Just prior to his joining Dragon, Marc released a single in 1973 on the Family label called "X-Ray Creature"/"Dinghy Days".

Marc was fired from Dragon because by his own admission he had become too weird. This was a result of an excess of drugs and alcohol. Todd said "Marc was killing himself. We had to fire him or he'd have destroyed himself". So Marc went overseas to recuperate, visiting Morocco and London for about seven months. During this time Dragon struggled on without him, but with audience numbers dropping and debts going up, they decided to call it a day in December 1979.

In 1981 another record deal was acquired when Polydor signed Marc to their Mercury label. Marc and  brother Todd had been writing more songs and almost like the first album, they called in any available friend and musician to help put together a second album. The result, produced by Todd, was "Big City Talk" in 1981. This album was a little more polished than the first, with Marc becoming a bit more serious about his recordings. Again there were three singles taken from the album, with the B-Sides of the first two singles being non-album tracks. The singles were "Big City Talk"/"Old Fashioned Love Affair", "(Rock 'n' Roll Is) A Loser's Game"/"Midnight Knocks" and "Sideshow"/"Slow Down Baby". The single "Big City Talk" became his second chart success.