Copyright 1972 Landers-Roberts Music & April Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with writer Albert Hammond's personal permission. For personal use only.

US #5 for Albert Hammond in 1972

Albert Hammond (writer, recording artist): It never rains... was written in London, before we came to Los Angeles, and we knew we were coming, and I've been telling Mike the story of me in Spain when I started and how I was asking for money outside of the train stations because I had no money to eat and I didn't want to tell my parents. My cousin was on honeymoon then, and he came out of the train station and saw me, and I didn't even know it was him... I just asked him for some money, too. And he said "you should be ashamed, I'm gonna tell your father", and I said "please, don't tell him, he'll go crazy and and stop me doing this!" And then he took me back into the hotel, I had a bath, he gave me some clean clothes and some money. I moved on, but he did tell my father, you know. All these things like "will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it" and all that stuff came from that era of my life when I was struggling, trying to make it, trying to get from Morocco to Spain, from Spain to England, from England to America... That struggle you go through, that's It never rains in Southern California, the story of my life. (Albert on the telephone with Reto, Copyright ?2002 by Reto)

Albert Hammond (writer, recording artist): [It] not just started my solo career, but also established it. For me, it's one of my most important songs not only because I think it's a great song and I love it and I think it tells the story of my life in a way, but also because I was the artist, the producer, the writer - I mean, everything was right, it was just like the right thing. If I hadn't had that, I might have got slowly downhill, you know. (Albert on the telephone with Reto Studer)