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"When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" is a track on the Roy Harper album HQ. Released as a single twice, in 1975 and 1978, it is possibly Roy's best-known song. The song captures the atmosphere of a village cricket match and is an elegy to a previous age.
On his website, Harper talks of the track as being one of the highlights of the HQ album;
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My childhood memories of the heroic stature of the footballers and cricketers of the day invoke the sounds that went along with them. Paramount among these was the traditional Northern English brass band, which was a functional social component through all four seasons, being seen and heard in many different contexts. My use of that style of music on 'Old Cricketer' is a tribute to those distant memories." [1] |
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[edit] Track listing
- "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - (7:13)
- "Hallucinating Light" (Live)
[edit] Trivia
British DJ John Peel made an agreement with his producer, John Walters, that in the event of Peel's death, Walters would play the song on air. Walters died in 2001, three years before Peel, so the request could not be fulfilled. Instead, the song was played by fellow DJ Andy Kershaw at the end of his tribute to Peel on BBC Radio 3 (broadcast on 31 October 2004).
Peel's stand-in on his Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song, at the start of the final show before Peel's funeral.
[edit] References
- ^ Roy Harper Official Site
[edit] External links
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Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion · In Between Every Line · Born in Captivity II · Unhinged · Live At Les Cousins · The BBC Tapes - Volume I (1969 - 1973) · The BBC Tapes - Volume II (In Concert 1974) · The BBC Tapes - Volume III (BBC Sessions 1974) · The BBC Tapes - Volume IV (In Concert 1975) · The BBC Tapes - Volume V (BBC Sessions 1975 - 1978) · The BBC Tapes - Volume VI (In Concert 1978 with Andy Roberts) · Royal Festival Hall Live - June 10th 2001
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Singles / 12" Singles / EPs
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Stonehenge 84 · Live in your Living Room · Once · Beyond the Door
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