Back to Front (Caravan album)

Back to Front

Studio album by Caravan

Released

July 1982

Recorded

Nov 1981-Jan 1982; Oak Studios, Herne Bay, Kent

Genre

Progressive rock, Canterbury scene

Length

42:53

Label

Kingdom

Producer

Caravan

Caravan chronology

Show of Our Lives
(1981)

Back to Front
(1982)

BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
(1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Back to Front is the 1982 album released by Caravan. Back to Front featured the original lineup of Richard Coughlan, Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair and David Sinclair after 1971's In the Land of Grey and Pink and would be the last album to feature that lineup following Richard Coughlan's death in 2013.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Back to Herne Bay Front"	Richard Sinclair	5:55
2.	"Bet You Wanna Take It All / Hold on Hold On"	Pye Hastings	5:20
3.	"A.A. Man"	Richard Sinclair	5:02
4.	"Videos of Hollywood"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	5:11

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sally Don't Change It"	Dave Sinclair	4:06
2.	"All Aboard"	Hastings, Murphy, Sinclair	4:08
3.	"Taken My Breath Away"	Hastings	4:52
4.	"Proper Job / Back to Front"	Dave Sinclair	8:19

Personnel

Pye Hastings – Guitar and Vocals, Guitar solo on 'Proper Job'
Richard Sinclair – Bass Guitar and Vocals, Guitar solo on 'A.A. Man'
Dave Sinclair – Piano, Organ, Minimoog and Prophet, Lead vocal On 'Proper Job'
Richard Coughlan – Drums and Percussion, Talking voice On 'Proper Job'

Additional personnel

Saxophone solos - Mel Collins
Recorded by Graeme Quinton-Jones and Jeremy Darby

Release information

LP Kingdom 5011 (1982)
CD Eclectic 1010 (2004 remaster)
CD Eclectic 230448 (2005 remaster)

References

↑ Kurtz, Peter. "Back to Front - Caravan | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

Caravan

Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Jan Schelhaas Jim Leverton Mark Walker Richard Coughlan Richard Sinclair Dave Sinclair Steve Miller Derek Austin Stuart Evans John G. Perry Mike Wedgwood Dek Messecar Doug Boyle Simon Bentall Jimmy Hastings

Studio albums	Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You In the Land of Grey and Pink Waterloo Lily For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. Dunstans Better by Far The Album Back to Front Cool Water The Battle of Hastings The Unauthorized Breakfast Item Paradise Filter

Live albums	Caravan and the New Symphonia Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert Travelling Man Live: Canterbury Comes to London Songs for Oblivion Fishermen Ether Way Surprise Supplies Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions

Compilation albums	Show of Our Lives The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales All Over You...Too The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975

Related bands	Delivery Matching Mole National Health In Cahoots Egg Soft Heap Gong The Wilde Flowers Bruford Uriel Hatfield and the North Khan Earthworks

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