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Vinyl L.P - Charisma Records - CAS 1092.
1974 - U.K.
Design, cover photos (A. Powell): HIPGNOSIS.
Inspired by an original drawning by: Malcolm Harrison NTA.
Logo: Alan Aldridge.
Live photos: Jill Furmanovsky.
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Back cover
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Labels
Vinyl L.P:
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Capitol Records - ST-11334.
1974 - Canada.
Cover illustration: Alan Aldridge.
Live photos: Jill Furmanovsky.
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Back cover
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Labels
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Kevin Smith - Guitars.
Kenny Baker - Guitar, keyboards, vocals.
Pat Martin - Bass, vocals.
Pete Perrier - Vocals, drums.
Memorabilia:
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Capitol Records
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Charisma Records
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ReplyDeleteUnicorn | Interview
by Klemen Breznikar
Our manager Steve O’Rourke and producer David Gilmour booked Olympic Studios in Barnes, London where The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, The Small Faces et cetera had all recorded.
We started in the large room but then found the smaller room was more intimate and recorded most of ‘Blue Pine Trees’ in there, David then decided to mix the album at George Martin’s Air Studios in central London because he felt they were better equipped for mixing.
Steve O’Rourke punted the finished album around and got us deals with Charisma Records for UK (Charisma boss Tony Stratton-Smith part owned a racehorse with Steve O’Rourke, don’t know if that had anything to do with it).
He got us an amazing deal with Capitol Records for the USA and EMI International for the rest of the world. All three deals had large advances included and we went from being a band in a Transit van with worn out equipment to a band driven in a car and brand new equipment driven in a truck by two road managers.
Our head road manager / sound engineer was Norman Whapshott, a guy I sat next to on my first day at school and he went to secondary school with Pete and Ken.
Our other road manager Frank Windsor was half French and definitely had a French attitude, he went on strike for a couple of days on our USA tour and I also heard him tell a big promoter “Your problem is you don’t cater for bands, mate.”
Hundreds of large posters of the ‘Blue Pine Trees’ album cover, designed by Hipgnosis who did all the Pink Floyd album covers, were spread all over the greater London area. Apparently there was a guy known as Mick The Pill who had the poster sticking market sewn up.