Georgie Fame's 1979 debut on Pye Records is more pop than rock, though there are enough jazz, soul, and funk elements in it to keep things very interesting. Co-producer Karl Jenkins, formerly of Soft Machine, wrote some lively but unobtrusive string and horn arrangements, some of them straight pop "Eros Hotel" is a supremely moody pop piece that most singers would give their eye teeth to generate on an album but some also very much emulating the sound of early'70s American pop-soul. And there are moments such as on "Funny How Time Slips Away" where Fame, with his laid-back style, could pass for Bill Withers, and other moments where listeners might think they were hearing some of the softer Motown sides of the decade. What makes all of this even more surprising is that Fame wrote most of the material on the album, showing a talent for composition than he'd previously never manifested. Between his songs and Jenkins' arrangements, the sound (when Fame is not doing pure pop) is derivative of American soul, especially the Philadelphia sound, with some more awkward and less successful Latin elements present as well.