Silence may be easy, but making yearning, Coldplay-inspired noises can't be that hard, either, if the proliferation of bands trafficking in them is any indication. Whether it's preferable to remain ...

On working with Phil Spector for their 2003 album Silence is Easy Starsailor’s lead singer James Walsh said: “Recording with Phil Spector was an amazing experience at the time. I had grown up with ...

“What’s Spanish for cool?” James Walsh, the pleasantly love-handled frontman of British band Starsailor, asks the audience at the surprisingly crowded Paradise Rock Club. Someone in the audience ...

Britain’s Starsailor were the last band to work with Phil Spector, who was convicted yesterday of second degree murder for the death for Lana Clarkson. Spector worked with the band on their second ...

If only whiny James from Starsailor had sucked on Phil Spector’s gun in the same, voracious way that he does on the cock of corporate indie tunefulness; then, instead of us having to write some ...

On "Silence is Easy," the quartet takes a warmer tack, singing about wistfulness in as light a manner as possible. Recorded at Abbey Road partly with producer Phil Spector (who they later fired), the ...

The last time Phil Spector had produced a record had been 1980, the same year James Walsh was born in England. Walsh grew up to be the lead singer for Starsailor, a Brit-pop band named after a Tim ...