 Box set collecting over five hours of music from 1975 including well-known and obscure offerings.
Format: CD / Cat No: ECLEC42883 / Released: 30/08/2024
Track Listing: CD 1: 1. The Show of Our Lives - CARAVAN / 2. In My Life - BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST / 3. Maid in Heaven - BE BOP DELUXE / 4. Assault & Battery / The Golden Void - HAWKWIND / 5. Squire - ALAN HULL / 6. Just the Same - GENTLE GIANT / 7. Rufus T. Firefly - STACKRIDGE / 8. Soon (single version) - YES / 9. The Salmon Song - STEVE HILLAGE / 10. Rhayader Goes to Town - CAMEL / 11. Modern Times - AL STEWART / 12. Ocean Gypsy - RENAISSANCE
CD 2: 1. Spiral Galaxy 28948 - HAWKWIND / 2. Star of Sirius - STEVE HACKETT / 3. Time - BAKER GURVITZ ARMY / 4. The Institute of Mental Health Burning - PETER HAMMILL / 5. Pandora’s Box - PROCOL HARUM / 6. Wind Cloud - KESTREL / 7. Music in Dreamland - BE BOP DELUXE / 8. Harlequin - PFM / 9. Lucky Seven - CHRIS SQUIRE / 10. Nightingales and Bombers - MANFRED MANN’S EARTHBAND / 11. Sheba’s Song - FRUUPP / 12. Solar Musick Suite - STEVE HILLAGE
CD 3: 1. People - BAKER GURVITZ ARMY / 2. From Under - PFM / 3. It’s All Over - NEKTAR / 4. Toward the Sun - DRUID / 5. 7171 551 - MAN / 6. Free Hand - GENTLE GIANT / 7. No One’s More Important Than The Earthworm - STACKRIDGE / 8. Doldrums - GREENSLADE / 9. Watch Out, There’s a Mind About - GLOBAL VILLAGE TRUCKING COMPANY / 10. Pig Storm - WIGWAM / 11. Give My Compliments to the Chef - SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND / 12. Starving in the Tropics - STRING DRIVEN THING / 13. Out of My Tree - CLIVE JOHN
CD 4: 1. Hazard Profile - SOFT MACHINE / 2. Didn’t Matter Anyway - HATFIELD & THE NORTH / 3. Bless Your Lucky Stars - WIGWAM / 4. Shadow of the Hierophant - STEVE HACKETT / 5. Hymn for the Children - BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST / 6. Trip to the Fair - RENAISSANCE / 7. Arrow - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR / 8. Dancer - BABE RUTH / 9. The Dabsong Conshirtoe - CARAVAN
More information: Sometimes dismissed as a time when rock music was failing to move forward, this compilation reveals that 1975 was a year of unparalleled excellence, diversity and growth for Progressive artists.
Including well-known and obscure offerings, Ring The Bells and Sing features BJH, Be Bop Deluxe, Camel, Caravan, Steve Hackett, Gentle Giant, Fruup, Peter Hammill / VDGG, Hatfield & The North, Soft Machine, Wigwam and many, many more.
Mark Powell writes an essay in the accompanying booklet.
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