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Grandfather - The Dear Mr. Time Anthology
Dear Mr.time
Grandfather - The Dear Mr. Time Anthology
Dear Mr.time
o 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.
o Having built up their act while touring in France and Germany, Dear Mr. Time returned to England, signing a deal with the independent Square label. Square released the band's seven-ages-of-man concept album "Grandfather" in early 1971, but although it attracted good reviews, the LP failed to reach many shops and duly sank without trace.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o Our new anthology of the band's work assembles all three Dear Mr. Time albums and adds that proposed fourth album.
o 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".
o With a booklet that illustrates the band's story with rare photos and new quotes, our expanded 3-CD release of "Grandfather" - which includes around two dozen previously unissued tracks - 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.
.. MR. TIME ANTHOLOGY
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 3 |
Specielt cover | Digipak |
Released | July 23, 2021 |
EAN/UPC | 5013929189720 |
Label | GRAPEFRUIT CRSEG097T |
Genre | Rock Progressive Rock |
Dimensions | 127 × 128 × 10 mm · 324 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Birth the Beginning
- Out of Time
- Make Your Peace
- Yours Claudia
- Prelude (To Your Country Needs You?)
- Your Country Needs You?
- A Dawning Moonshine
- Years and Fortunes
- A Prayer for Her
- Light Up a Light
- On a Lonely Night
- Grandfather
- Only Fooling
- Henrietta Hall
- Not Now at All
- Victorian Blue
- This Place Was Us Was Home
- When Baby Comes
- A Song of Fairgrounds
- Gold and Silver
- True Blue
- When You Move
- All I Have to Give
- August Lights
- Naked Fingers
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2. CD
- Pig Heaven
- 67
- T Understand (Peru)
- Like the First Time Again
- On Hallowed Ground
- S Only Love / Tomorrow is Another Day
- Sitting in an English Garden
- Pigs in Outer Space
- Butterflies Are Free
- The Universe in My Heart
- Streetwise
- Songbird in the Rain
- Peru (Reprise)
- Full Circle
- Re Only Human
- Maisie Grey
- T Go Holding on to Me
- Kifissia Sunrise
- All the Same
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3. CD
- Acid Rain
- Today is Such a Lovely Day
- The One Who Saved the Sun
- Elephants Dump
- Summer Days with You
- Einstein in the Sun
- Hours
- Gimme Jam
- I Will Be with You
- Never Done Godspell
- Home Again
- We Always Knew
- The Houses in Between
- Archie Vine
- When We Were Young
- Lonely Eyes
- The Sentimentalist
- The One
- Walk the World
- What Will B
- There is No More (You Do It All)