Gone to Earth (Barclay James Harvest album)
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| Studio album by Barclay James Harvest | |||||
| Released | 1977 | ||||
| Recorded | March to June 1977 Strawberry Studios, Stockport |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 39:50 | ||||
| Label | Polydor Records | ||||
| Producer | Barclay James Harvest, David Rohl | ||||
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Gone To Earth is an album by the English rockgroup Barclay James Harvest released in 1977. It reached #30 in the UK-Charts but in Germany it peaked #10 and became their largest selling album. It stayed for 197 weeks in the German album charts. Hymn (often misinterpreted as christmas song but actually 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 "Poor Man's Moody Blues".
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.
The title "Gone To Earth" is derived from the hunter's language when the fox is no longer obtainable
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[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side 1
- Hymn (John Lees) - 5:06
- Love is Like a Violin (Lees) - 4:03
- Friend of Mine (Les Holroyd) - 3:30
- Poor Man's Moody Blues (Lees) - 6:55
[edit] Side 2
- Hard Hearted Woman (Holroyd) - 4:27
- Sea of Tranquility (Woolly Wolstenholme) - 4:03
- Spirit on the Water (Holroyd) - 4:49
- Leper's Song (Lees) - 3:34
- Taking Me Higher (Holroyd) - 3:07
[edit] Personnel
- John Lees – vocals, guitars
- Les Holroyd – vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards
- Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme – vocals, mellotron, keyboards
- Mel Pritchard – drums, percussion
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