Commercial Breaks (album)

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Commercial Breaks

Studio album by Roy Harper
Released	1994
Recorded	England
Genre	Rock
Length	47:51
Label	Science Friction HUCD016
Producer(s)	Roy Harper
All Music Guide link
Roy Harper chronology
Unhinged (1993)	Commercial Breaks (1994)	An Introduction to ..... (1994)
Alternate Cover

Intended Original Cover

Commercial Breaks is a 1977 album by Roy Harper that was not officially released in its entirety until 1994.

1 Miscellanea
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 External links

[edit] Miscellanea

A dispute between EMI and Harper prevented the planned release of this album (Harvest (SHSP 4077)) though a few test pressings do exist. Of the original 10 songs, 9 were later released on the 1988 Awareness Records release Loony on the Bus (AWCD1011).

The Science Friction release (HUCD016), contains two extra songs not originally on the album i.e. "Burn The World (Part 1)" and "Playing Prisons". Three of the albums songs ("I'm In Love With You", "Ten Years Ago" and "The Flycatcher") ended up being re-recorded for Harper's 1980 release, The Unknown Soldier.

The album cover features logos, products and advertising, primarily from television commercials of the era. Most visible are the Smash Martian, Honey Monster, Michelin Man and a large pack of Wrigleys gum.

"The band on this record were known as Black Sheep and included Andy Roberts, Henry McCullough, Dave Lawson, Dave Cochran and John Halsey. Dave Cochran was a survivor from Trigger, which was the band that made HQ." Roy Harper [1]