“I started to think, ’Could I come up with something that would be a fit for a James Bond movie?’” Robin Trower on the secrets to his signature sound, his Strat headstock theory – and how 007 influenced his new album

Robin Trower plays his red signature Stratocaster on a stage lit up in blue.

There have been two album releases from Robin Trower this year: one is a 50th anniversary reissue of the 1975 album For Earth Below, while the other is a brand-new studio album, Come And Find Me.

With the former – originally the follow-up to 1974’s hugely successful Bridge Of Sighs – some might think there would have been added pressure to satisfy fan expectations. “I don’t think any of us were thinking about that particularly,” Robin tells us. “The full concentration was on trying to make as good an album as possible with the material that we had.”