Public Foot The Roman - Public Foot The Roman



Vinyl L.P - Sovereign Records - SVNA 7259.
1973 - U.K.

Cover design, photos (A. Powell/S. Thorgerson): HIPGNOSIS.


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  1. JAZZ ROCK SOUL.comJune 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM


    Public Foot the Roman was an English symphonic/funk-rock band that released a 1973 self-titled album on Sovereign. Three-fifths of the band launched The Movies, which made five albums between 1975 and 1981.

    Public Foot the Roman emerged on the Cambridge college scene during the early 1970s. They consisted of guitarist Greg Knowles, bassist Howard “Word” Tweddle, drummer Jamie Lane, keyboardist Dag Small, and singer, guitarist, and songwriter Sean Byrne. (Some sources on the internet claim that this is the same Sean Byrne as the Irish-born singer/guitarist of US garage rockers the Count Five, responsible for the 1966 hit “Psychotic Reaction.”)

    The band was part of a select coterie of acts (Flash, Mouse, Renaissance) signed to Sovereign, the short-lived progressive division of EMI.

    Public Foot the Roman released their singular album on Sovereign in 1973. It features seven songs, primarily attributed to Byrne but co-credited to the band.

    Side A has two shorter cuts (“Landowner,” “King for a Day”) and two lengthier numbers (“When You Lay It Down,” “Judas Returns”).

    Side B features two five-minute pieces (“Don’t Bite the Hand,” “One (On My Mind)”) and the eight-minute epic “Decline and Fall.”

    On the cover photo, a group of people point upward at tower lights in an empty football stadium after dark. US copies sport the orange Sovereign/Capitol label.

    The album was produced by Derek Lawrence (Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Gordon Giltrap, Strange Days) and engineered by George Sloan (Horslips, Leo Sayer, Roger Glover).

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