Editing Any Trouble (section)

==Move to EMI America and break-up==
After returning from their US tour without a recording contract Any Trouble took a long break, after which Clive Gregson returned to making demos. He had a meeting with subsequent manager [[Ray Williams (producer)|Ray Williams]] who persuaded him Any Trouble had a sufficient following to justify its revival. Gregson re-formed the band and, on the strength of the demos, Williams secured a contract with Gery Gersh at [[EMI America Records|EMI America]].<ref name=booklet />

Any Trouble's new line-up included Andy Ebsworth on drums and Steve Gurl on keyboards, with original members Clive Gregson and Phil Barnes.<ref name="Larkin"/> The sessions started promisingly enough with [[Val Garay]] ([[The Motels]]) as producer but Garay left after contract negotiations broke down. [[David Kershenbaum]] (best known for producing [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] and, later, [[Tracy Chapman]]) was brought on board to produce the band's eponymous third album ''Any Trouble'' but they were unhappy with the synthesizer-heavy sound of the final mix. While they toured the UK to support the album there were no funds available from the record company for a US tour; the album failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Gregson decided to throw everything into Any Trouble's second effort for EMI America, producing an ambitious double album (an 11-track single LP in the US) that featured a mixture of new and previously recorded material to highlight the band's diverse range of material. The new release, titled ''[[Wrong End of the Race]]'',<ref name="Larkin"/> also failed to chart despite support from the record company.<ref name=booklet/> After the failure of their second EMI album, Clive Gregson broke the band up again.<ref name="Larkin"/> He recorded a solo album and joined [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]]'s band for a time before starting a successful folk-rock duo with [[Christine Collister]] in the mid-1980s, on the dissolution of which he resumed his solo career from 1992 to the present. Gregson has also toured and recorded in various combinations of musicians, including [[Boo Hewerdine]], [[Eddi Reader]], [[Nanci Griffith]], [[Andy Roberts (musician)|Andy Roberts]], [[Ian Matthews (musician)|Ian Matthews]] and [[Dennis Locorriere]]. Andy Ebsworth was one of the members of [[Ryder (band)|Ryder]], the purpose-made pop group which represented the United Kingdom at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1986|1986 Eurovision Song Contest]].<ref name=bbceurovision>{{cite web|title=Eurovision 1986: Ryder|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5jp7mL90P5kl2rscTTD4kJP/eurovision-1986-ryder|website=BBC|accessdate=14 January 2015}}</ref>