High In The Morning: British Progressive Pop / Var High In The Morning: British Progressive Pop / Var CD

Three CD set. 2022 instalment of Grapefruit's popular year-by-year overviews of the more melodic end of the early 70s UK progressive rock scene. A four-hour compilation featuring big hits, key album tracks, cult classics and rarities from 1973. 1973 was another significant year in British pop, with the recent arrival of glam inspiring many underground bands to adopt a more streamlined sound. That more song-based approach helped give the 1973 singles chart a new energy, with memorable 45s from Mott The Hoople, Manfred Mann's Earthband, Faces, Status Quo, Medicine Head and Nazareth. Though they fell short of the charts, some of the era's more idiosyncratic singer-songwriter talents - Kevin Ayers, Al Stewart, Kevin Coyne - also issued much-loved, radio-friendly singles. On the live circuit, the UK free festival scene was dominated by a new hippie/glam/space rock convergence, with brand leaders Hawkwind joined by the likes of The Pink Fairies and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come. Featuring all of the above names as well as Thin Lizzy, The Kinks, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Caravan, Procol Harum, Stealers Wheel, Roy Wood, Rare Bird, Badfinger, Free, Family and many others, 'High In The Morning' is a fascinating three-CD, four-hour appraisal of the 1973 British rock and pop scene. Housed in a clamshell box that features a classic crowd shot from that year's Windsor free festival, 'High In The Morning' includes a 48-page booklet that's packed with rare photos, quotes and biographical information.

1. All the Way from Memphis (Album Version) - Mott the Hoople 2. Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earthband 3. Surprise, Surprise - Caravan 4. Marlene - Kevin Coyne 5. The Sergeant Says - Spirogyra 6. Wildfire - Rococo 7. Medusa - Dr. Marigold's 8. Randolph's Tango - Thin Lizzy 9. A Rum Tale - Procol Harum 10. Terminal Eyes- Al Stewart 11. An Appointment with the Master (Single Version) - Bachdenkel 12. Star - Stealers Wheel 13. Ragged Rain Life - Duncan Browne 14. High in the Morning - Rare Bird 15. Birdman - Joe Soap 16. Urban Guerrilla - Hawkwind 17. Love Is Easy - Badfinger 18. Mr. Custer - Paul Brett 19. All the Fallen Teen Angels - Mouse 20. Towers - Mick Audsley 21. Too Hot to Handle (Alternative Early Mix) - Ducks Deluxe 22. Pick Up the Phone - Patto 23. Do the Strand - Roxy Music 24. Caribbean Moon - Kevin Ayers 25. (I Don't Wanna Love You) But You Got Me Anyway - Sutherland Brothers and Quiver 26. Travellin' in Style - Free 27. Pale Green Vauxhall Driving Man - Prowler 28. Running Away - Duffy 29. Showdown - England's Glory 30. On the Frontier - Shoot 31. Caroline (Album Version) - Status Quo 32. The Award - Fantasy 33. Temple Song - Greenslade 34. Orange Song - Rupert Hine 35. Rising Sun - Medicine Head 36. Dreams (Story of Our Time/Beneath This Sky) - Ithaca 37. Hold on to Your Fire - Libido 38. Sweet Desiree - Family 39. Legal Eagle Shuffle - the Spencer Davis Group 40. Come Alive (Aka Slow Rock) - Kingdom Come 41. City Kids - Pink Fairies 42. Dirty Dick - Streak 43. Buffalo (Full-Length Version) - Writing on the Wall 44. Swampsnake - Sensational Alex Harvey Band 45. Broken Down Angel - Nazareth 46. 16 and Savaged - Silverhead 47. Man from Galilee - Fairfield Ski 48. Girl Said to Me - Liverpool Echo 49. Always - the Big Three 50. Fool's Gold - Hemlock 51. Pool Hall Richard - Faces 52. Gold Medallions - Tucky Buzzard 53. World - Curved Air 54. Moving Moor - Complex 55. English Morning - Jade Warrior 56. I Don't Need Nobody - Shape of the Rain 57. Not Fade Away - Frank White 58. Forever - Roy Wood 59. I'll Always Be Your Friend - Byzantium 60. Out on the Road - Patrick Campbell-Lyons 61. Bank Holiday - Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts 62. Sitting in the Midday Sun - the Kinks 63. I'm Gonna Get You - Reform 64. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Album Version) - Bryan Ferry 65. Do the Stanley - Stackridge