In 1982 Lewis shows up at the Beverly Hills hotel with his model girlfriend driving a white Mercedes, hires a producer and photographer, and makes a brilliant lofi piano driven electro album, like Twin Peaks Badalamenti atmosphere meets the minimalism of Springsteen's Nebraska with a Serge Gainsbourg cool. Once the album's complete Lewis skips town, his cheques start bouncing and the record barely sees the light of day for decades, even after its rediscovery the label had to hire a private investigator to track down, what turned out to be a charismatic Alberta stock broker ...
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