Dear Mr Time Grandfather: The Dear Mr Time Anthology CD

Three CD set. Coming together at the end of the Sixties, Essex band Dear Mr. Time were a five-piece progressive rock outfit influenced by the likes of King Crimson and The Moody Blues. The independent Square label released the band's seven-ages-of-man concept album Grandfather in early 1971. With Vertigo's interest in signing Dear Mr. Time scuppered by the fact that Square had signed them to an exclusive three-year deal, the band decided to split before a second album could be recorded. By the early Nineties, original copies of Grandfather were selling for large sums of money, and the album was counterfeited several times before finally being legally reissued in 2010. Buoyed by the reception that the official reissue received, the core members of Dear Mr. Time reconvened, recording two further albums - Brontosaurs And Bling and Time - as well as recording tracks for a proposed fourth album. This anthology of the band's work assembles all three Dear Mr. Time albums and adds that proposed fourth album. We also add some fascinating early Seventies home demos from guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Baker, performing a batch of songs that would have formed the basis of that aborted follow-up to Grandfather. With a booklet that illustrates the band's story with rare photos and new quotes, our expanded release of Grandfather is the final word on a progressive rock band who, although they made a limited impression at the time, have now attracted collector interest for more than three decades.

1. Birth - the Beginning 2. Out of Time 3. Make Your Peace 4. Yours Claudia 5. Prelude (To Your Country Needs You?) 6. Your Country Needs You? 7. A Dawning Moonshine 8. Years and Fortunes 9. A Prayer for Her 10. Light Up a Light 11. On a Lonely Night 12. Grandfather 13. Only Fooling 14. Henrietta Hall 15. Not Now at All 16. Victorian Blue 17. This Place Was Us Was Home 18. When Baby Comes 19. A Song of Fairgrounds 20. Gold and Silver 21. True Blue 22. When You Move 23. All I Have to Give 24. August Lights 25. Naked Fingers 26. Pig Heaven 27. In '67 28. I Don't Understand (Peru) 29. Like the First Time Again 30. On Hallowed Ground 31. It's Only Love/Tomorrow Is Another Day 32. Sitting in An English Garden 33. Pigs in Outer Space 34. Butterflies Are Free 35. The Universe in My Heart 36. Streetwise 37. Songbird in the Rain 38. Peru (Reprise) 39. Full Circle 40. We're Only Human 41. Maisie Grey 42. Don't Go Holding on to Me 43. Kifissia Sunrise 44. All the Same 45. Acid Rain 46. Today Is Such a Lovely Day 47. The One Who Saved the Sun 48. Elephants Dump 49. Summer Days with You 50. Einstein in the Sun 51. Mr. Towers' Hours 52. Gimme Jam 53. I Will Be with You 54. Never Done Godspell 55. Home Again 56. We Always Knew 57. The Houses in Between 58. Archie Vine 59. When We Were Young 60. Lonely Eyes 61. The Sentimentalist 62. The One 63. Walk the World 64. What Will Be 65. There Is No More (You Do It All)