Roy Harper

HQ

vinyl albumCD album
UK) Harvest / 6308 070
Japan) Toshiba /
UK) Science Friction / HUCD019

original releasing date : 1975

track listing
The Game (Part 1-5)Referendum (Legend)
The Spirit LivesForget Me Not
Grown Ups Are Just Silly ChildrenHallucinating Light
Too Many MoviesWhen An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
The Spirit Lives (early mix 23/03/75, CD only)
When An Old Cricketer Leaves ...(Exeter 31/10/77, CD only)
Hallucinating Light (7" single version, CD only)

musicians
Roy Harper :vocals / guitars
Chris Spedding :guitars
Dave Gilmour :guitars
Dave Cochran :bass
John Paul Jones :bass
Bill Brudford :

drums

produced by :Peter Jenner

recording data
at EMI Studios in March 1975


single
When An Old Cricketer ... / Hallucinating Light (acoustic version)

UK) Harvest / HAR 5096

releasing date : May 2 1975

Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children / Referendum (Legend)
UK) Harvest / HAR 5102
releasing date : October 17 1975

The Game (promotional copy)
USA) Chrysalis / PRO 626
releasing date : 1975


Dave Gilmour couldn't nail down The Game's frenzied final section. After two or three shots, Gilmour gave up, yielding to Spedding. Harper says,
Spedding arrived in a white suite, a red carnation in his lapel, shades one carrying a tiny amp. So we played the tape, he says, 'Okay, play it again.' I started to laugh halfway through, because he completely understood the spirit, the whole thing. Within 20 minutes, he was packing up and walking out again.
Spedding also rescued Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children from the outtakes pile. Harper explains,
Spedding said, 'Why don't we do this with it?', started a Chuck Berry riff from nowhere. And I smailed, I knew that was it for the song, and it made record because of that.'


Roy Harper session list