Gone to Earth (1977 album)

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Gone to Earth

Studio album by Barclay James Harvest
Released	1977
Recorded	March to June 1977 Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Genre	Rock
Length	39:50
Label	Polydor Records
Producer(s)	Barclay James Harvest, David Rohl
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Barclay James Harvest chronology
Octoberon (1976)	Gone to Earth (1977)	Live Tapes, (live) (1977)

Gone to Earth is an album by the English rockgroup Barclay James Harvest released in 1977. It peaked #30 in the UK-Charts but in Germany it became their largest selling album. It stayed for 160 weeks in the German album charts. Hymn (a song against the dangers of drug use and dedicated to musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Paul Kossoff and Janis Joplin) was a successful turntable hit at German radio stations in the late 1970s. Poor Man's Moody Blues is a reference to the Moody Blues song Nights in White Satin because reviewers often described Barclay James Harvest as a "a Poor Man's Moody Blues".

1 Track listing
- 1.1 A-Side
- 1.2 B-Side
2 Personnel
3 Miscellaneous Information
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] A-Side

Hymn (John Lees) - 5:06
Love Is Like A Violin (John Lees) - 4:03
Friend Of Mine (Les Holroyd) - 3:30
Poor Man's Moody Blues (John Lees) - 6:55

[edit] B-Side

Hard Hearted Woman (Les Holroyd) - 4:27
Sea Of Tranquility (Woolly Wolstenholme) - 4:03
Spirit On The Water (Les Holroyd) - 4:49
Leper's Song (John Lees) - 3:34
Taking Me Higher (Les Holroyd) - 3:07

[edit] Personnel

John Lees – vocals, guitars
Les Holroyd – bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals
Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme – vocals, mellotron, keyboards
Mel Pritchard – drums, percussion

[edit] Miscellaneous Information

The original LP version of this album featured an inner album sleeve which could be reversed within an outer cover. On one side was the picture of the owl (as shown in the picture) on the other side was a picture of a setting sun. These could then be displayed "through" the template of the tree.