I remember Alchemy coming out and buying the double vinyl and playing it start to finish in front of a bunch of enthralled friends in the school common room. I think we did the same with Brothers in Arms too. Definitely my favourite band from my school days.
Talking of Terry Williams, I once saw Chuck Berry play live in New York. He famously doesn’t have a band, but gets the promoter to put together a band of good musicians that know his material and he just turns up without rehearsal and launches into ‘Maybellene in G!’ or whatever. The ‘pick-up band’ that supported Chuck Berry (this is in 1987) that night had Terry Williams on drums, Alan Clark (Dire Straits’ keyboard player), Dave Edmunds on rhythm guitar, and on bass – John Entwhistle! Quite the night.
Anyway, saw them on the Brothers in Arms tour, once at Wembley Arena (same day as Live Aid was on in the stadium) and then front row, twice at the Shepton Mallet cow sheds that they played in for two nights.
Might have to get the record player out!