page_title: Jigsaw (band)
section_title: Change in musical direction and commercial success
hierarchical_section_title: Jigsaw (band) / Change in musical direction and commercial success
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Muziekprogramma Toppop, groep Jigsaw in actie (20 maart 1975)English: Musical band Jigsaw on Dutch television programme Toppop (20 March 1975)
context_page_description: Jigsaw was an English pop music group, fronted by the singer-songwriter duo of Clive Scott and Des Dyer. In Australia, the group was called "British Jigsaw" due to the existence of a local band of the same name.
context_section_description: On stage, Jigsaw were a wild rock band who had a high energy live show; drum kits were set on fire, explosions were set off as an effect, Tony Britnell performed fire eating and Clive Scott would make his Marshall stack explode and disintegrate.  However, during the early 1970s they began writing and recording more mainstream pop.
  Jigsaw's arrangement of the Johann Sebastian Bach tune, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring was featured on their 1970 debut album Letherslade Farm.
  The group give credit to their producer and manager, Chas Peate, for inspiration to get songs completed. As Jigsaw toured a lot, Scott and Dyer would write snippets of songs separately in their spare time, but, as Dyer said in an interview in the 1990s, "it was Chas who would say we're recording an album soon, you'll need 10 songs by then". The two would then combine their work together for the planned recording sessions.
  As songwriters, the duo had a hit song with "Who Do You Think You Are", which was covered by the UK band Candlewick Green in 1974.  The song was further covered in the U.S. by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods (this version made the U.S. charts), and again in 1993 by Saint Etienne.  The song was also on Jigsaw's 1974 album I’ve Seen The Film, I’ve Read The Book.  However, the band's own single from the album "You’re Not The Only Girl" was not a chart success. Early in 1975, the single "Baby Don't Do It" received heavy airplay on the UK service of Radio Luxembourg, but the record was not a hit and the band were soon dropped by their recording label, BASF.
  Wanting to carry on, the group continued to make music and signed a new deal with independent UK label Splash, which was founded by Chas Peate himself. Their first single for their new label, titled "Sky High", was recorded for the film The Man from Hong Kong, a 1975 martial-arts action movie starring George Lazenby. Splash pressed a couple of hundred promotional copies and reaction to the song was good, especially from Radio Luxembourg which began playing the song with high rotation during its nightly English pop music broadcasts to the UK. "Sky High" subsequently made the UK Top 10 in November 1975. The recording was licensed to Chelsea Records in the United States where it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and to #2 Adult Contemporary.  The song was also #1 in Japan. A famous Mexican wrestler, Mil Máscaras, used "Sky High" as his theme tune. He would walk to the ring with the song playing in the background, and his popularity in Japan helped "Sky High" to become a hit twice over in that country in consecutive years.
  The Sky High album also sold well too, especially in Japan. The next single "Love Fire" was another hit, although not in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, "Love Fire"  was followed by two new albums, one for the British market called Pieces of Magic and another for the American market simply named, Jigsaw.
  In 1977, the band recorded an album Journey into Space in Los Angeles. Years later, Clive Scott revealed in an interview that the record label 20th Century Records paid for the band to fly out to make the album, paid for their accommodation, and gave them cash advances (or, as Scott called it, "pocket money") to live off for three months while making the record. The album was produced by Rick Jarrard who was the producer of Jose Feliciano and the person responsible for putting together Elvis Presley's Las Vegas band. However, the album was never released outside of Japan, much to the frustration of the group.
  Jigsaw returned to Britain and scored another hit with the single "If I Have To Go Away", after which they recorded ten original songs for the film Home Before Midnight, which were later released on a soundtrack album of the same name.
caption: Jigsaw on the Dutch TV programme TopPop on 20 January 1975.
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