"Lights Of The City" - abandoned "Million Seller" song

Look, mostly we’d have a plan and the studio walls would be covered in blueprints, equations and Venn diagrams. Each morning Steve would call a meeting, make an elaborate gesture with his cape and issue us all with checklists of ‘things to do’. (We'd sigh, though not like Twig the Wonder Kid, and give each other knowing looks as we suppressed giggles.) Sometimes, though, every now and again, there’d be a curveball*, which is what happened here. Originally – and according to all the checklists and punchcards – there was to be a song called “Lights Of The City”, but sometime after the instruments had been recorded we were informed that it was to be something called “Sugar Baby” instead. What happened was that we’d run into Randy Bachman in a hotel restaurant at breakfast time, and he’d ordered “a bowl of Sugar Babies or half a grapefruit” (I’m quoting myself here, from the sleevenotes to “Million Seller”), and our long-suffering A&R guy Jim had been waxing lyrical about ‘Sassy’ magazine (a cross between ‘Smash Hits’ and ‘Jackie’, as far as I could tell): next thing we know, “Lights Of The City” was off, and it was “Sugar Baby”. Here’s a tape of part of the track with what appear to be non-Amelia completed backing vocals. The girl in the picture is Piper, who was originally photographed for the “Million Seller” cover but who wasn’t included in the end. I hope she’s not too heartbroken!
(*an American term, referencing something to do with baseball)

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